The Four ! (Ep. 03)

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), but 'That's funny...'

 Isaac Asimov

I have understood this.

May be after so many failed attempts, but I've got it.

How?

Not this fast people.

There's one more phenomenal work, The last Question !

Here is a video, for those who don't read.

It's a short essay by Isaac Asimov, about a computer, which goes on collecting data, understanding the patterns and searching the meaning out of it. AC (Not the one which cools your room) is in the lead role in this essay.

Doesn't it sound a familiar story?

Someone (or Something) collecting data, understanding or learning the patterns and searching the meaning out of it ??

Well, it does to me.

It is me. Or maybe you. Or maybe her or him staring at the window.

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I was a late learner in the Kindergarten. 

And the first thing what I learnt, how to bite someone.

My mother, tells me, people from the place used to carry me all the time, so I couldn't touch the ground and run to bite someone's child.

Why I didn't bite any of the co-ordinators there? 

Perhaps, they were big so could have bit me back. :p

Why at all I learned the first thing at all?

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I know some people here at the university. Some from Anthropology, some from Sociology and some from Physics.

I am not in love with any of the conservatists there, but I talk. 

I talk to them to know some more things.

What they think, why they think like this, how they think like this, when they decide to think like this.

One frenzy is there. A doctorate in Bio-informatics. 

Here is the trick.

I ask him a question, we discuss, debate, we go for a cup of coffee, and I win the ground.

Why?

Well, I have learnt him also.

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I wrote, Things you don't have !

When a friend read it, she got confused with the reference of Apollo 11 and comparison of it with Technology.

Believe me, even I was while writing that post.

Why I wrote that thing?

Well, I believe there is choice. 

No no, wait ! Technology has brought choices. Enough choices.

So, what to give the priority, can be decided.

How?

Well, it is easy, learn the priorities.

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There's a new fantasy coming up.

No, it's not a movie fantasy. It's a stream of Science.

Fantasy? Yes, because still the researchers are yet provoke any solid learning out of it.

It's called, Quantum Biology.

For those who want to understand, please watch the below list.

A) Quantum Biology: An Introduction

B) Jim Al-Khalili - Quantum Life

C) Quantum Biology: The Hidden Nature of Nature

So the essence is that, Quantum theory can also answer certain or in future all questions of Life.

Question will have answers.

And technology will give the choices to select any one of them, may be.

How?

In the second video, Jim has given an example of British Robin.

A group has researched that, a phenomenon called Quantum Entanglement in a protein sitting in the bird's eyes, helps to locate the position via Earth's magnetic field.

That's Funny...

Anyway, so this bird have something with which it can learn.

And it learns via other inputs from its sensory mechanism, how to reach the goal.

Collects data, learn patterns and get the meaning.

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I have had a client.

He was heading the Sales and Marketing for India operations of a leading MNC.

Some office politics happened with parent country management, and he left the job.

His heart collected the data, learned the patterns and found the meaning.

It wasn't good. He went to cardiac arrest over allegations.

Good or Bad?

I don't know. But I helped him with meditation.

Three weeks and he started to work for a consultancy firm again.

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We, learn.

We, learn from our observations. 

Observations is a way to collect data.

We fit our past experiences over data and find patterns.

And with other sensory elements we get meanings out of the situations.

All the videos linked above, all these words, just to convey only one thing,

WE LEARN.

Why is it the topic this time?

Believe me, when you know you can learn, it is just the matter of choice as what to learn.

Technology is there to give you choice.

So, don't be the change what you want to see. Learn, what to see and what to skip, change will be the learning.

I love the last line of Isaac's essay, and again request you all to watch or read it. It's fascinating.

And AC said: "LET THERE BE LIGHT!" And there was light--

Closing line, "The Last Question"

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Happiness: The science of Observation

What’s in it for this time?

                   i.            How to observe Happiness?

                 ii.            How to find Happiness?

              iii.            How to alter more things for Happiness?

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“You can make new friends, daily, or choose to do otherwise. But, having some good tea with new faces; doesn’t sound a bad idea”

Why did I write this piece?

Well, I am no sociologist or much of the sociopath, either. But this is what I observed.

Few days back I was called in to an MNC, for a presentation. It was a techno mumbo jumbo on the clean technology and energy analytics.

I am just an amateur to IT and this domain, though trying to bring some experts and entrepreneurs together for a new gag.

In just five minutes, they fucked the presentation.

Technical, financial viability, management team, economical parameters, market trends and what not, been used to kill the idea.

Rumbled up the entire day, my confidence, three months’ work, motivation and dreams, all of them. In just five freaking minutes.

What could I do?

Nothing!

Not a single thing!

Why?

Well, they had the authority, power, attitude and right to reject the presentation. Maybe skills and expertise also. Who knows?

I went to the coffee house, was drinking my regular one.

The manager at the next table marked my mile long face and dared to ask me, if I was not keeping well.

My mind was begging to punch him in the face of that fucker, but somehow I had to post a sane behavior and they serve the best tea in area, so I just gather up the drenched muscles to nod yes. I needed an exhaust now.

He might have observed the thought of getting punched so didn't ask a single thing till I was at counter, clearing the tab.

Escorting me to the doors, he mumbled one tiny sentence, “Sir! Hope to see you with some new friends next time ".

No one was with me.

That fucker went crazy?

(Find the whole story here)

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Ok.

So here is the video.

I seriously recommend to watch it in the mute mode first time.

[Video: Russell Peters]

Did you notice his jokes?

Materials for making them is nothing new.

Observing different languages, different communities, their peculiarities and specifications, behaviors, clashes, daily life troubles, gestures, stress and incidents they face out of it.

He goes to the audience, pick someone and start making jokes from replies. It’s called on set timing. Most of the media magnet uses, the best was of George Bush’s. He ducks two shoes at a media outcry. Gosh! He is too sporty.

Russell’s, is observing our daily life and tilting his vision slightly, to get the humor out of it. Not big thing. Unless your brain is crooked, this trick works for everyone. Tilt your perception and you'll get humor from almost everything, everywhere.

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Here is one more video.

[Video: Shawn Achor]

They said, this is the best video in Jaw dropping and Funny category on TED.

In fact it is.

What he has to say?

Not much of new, than Russell and me.

Yes!

You heard it right.

OH wait. You read it right.

Nothing new than Russell and “me”!

Shawn’s things and research is in positive psychology. He has written books on it. 

They are cool to read. It encircles our ways at workplace, at daily life and at our interactions with this whole planet, to get the hold of positivity.

Centre piece for his work is the Gratitude.

Centre idea is the Expression.

Centre theme is Happiness.

How he’s saying to do this?

The same way I am proposing it.

Observation

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Seriously !

This is the only key.

You need to find Happiness?

Observe

You need to locate Gratitude?

Observe

You need to trace the Fun?

Observe

You need to point out laughter?

Observe

You need to express compassion?

Observe

You need to align life?

Observe

You need to explore depth of joy?

Observe

You need to serve your confidence?

Observe

You need to motivate yourself?

Observe

You need to pump fuel to dreams?

Observe

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Observation is the key.

Why is it so?

Because, we're intelligent !!

EP says that, we are exposed to only those details which needed to make us better at survival.

Survival needs Food, Tactics and Sex.

It doesn’t care if you're happy or sad.

You are hungry or in trouble; that talk to us, says our survival instincts.

How to get rid of it?

What, you want to get rid of survival instincts?

No need for it!

In fact, you must not. This is what keeping you alive.

What to do then?

Learn to observe.

How, but?

There is no science to teach this, fortunately, we don’t need one.

Why? Because, the entire process of brain is focused to observe.

Evolutionary Anthropology found that, brain is the robust computational machine.

[Video: David Eagleman]

This gentleman has decoded it.

We learn by observing the patterns.

Happiness is also a code in the brain. Sensing which brain produces the chemicals to create this feeling.

We need a simple answer dude !

Yes !

This is why I have started this blog.

I want to make simple things understandable.

So here is the crux !

A)  Whenever you’re crushed, doomed, fucked up, in stress, in dilemma, in pain, in rage or in fact in any state; note a thing or two, or make a simple list of three things

B)   Keep this list with you. Stored in your cellphone, in your computer or in any other gadget. If you don’t have any, write it on a piece of paper.

C)   Don’t complex things. Just write only three things. Nothing more. Whenever you want to, or you can, or you are into the set of feelings I told in A.

D)  Do nothing with that list.

E)   Maintain that list. And by maintaining I mean, update it daily. Two times a day is good, three times, is better.

Now here is the catch.

What you should choose in those three things?

You can write anything.

Yes, I am not joking.

Anything.

Write anything. But keep in mind, you have to update your list under these three titles daily, so be wise while choosing them.

I have chosen to observe my mood variations,

1. Um huh !
2. Fucked up !
3. Suck on bitches !

I update it four or sometimes five times a day. I have a excel sheet and a small piece of paper, to keep the track.

Why did I select only mood variation?

Because, I have seen my moods going crazy all the times. And what goes peak to bottom, tens times a day, just like the bumpy road, makes the ride horrible. This bumpy ride was the sucking wheel, drenching all the motives from my day to be happy.

You can decide a simple parameter, or drop a line, I’ll help you decide what to choose, for making this list.

Here is my thing.

I’m always fucked up, if I don’t get enough response to what I’ve bleed. My work, or blog, or food I made, or to research I did. Anything, in fact, to which I have engaged my expectations.

I am always like Um huh, whenever I’m late, tired, feeling alone, not having anything clear to speak or to share or to blog.

I am very rarely on the C. Suck on bitches. I am only there when I have got the best food, best thing to write, got some more money from clients than expected and sometimes when I get some appreciation.

What my brain thinks?

Don’t expect much of what others opine

Don’t be alone. Not for much time.

Don’t eat shit food. Neither write shit nor cook.

That’s all.

Whatever goes around my life, these three patterns are my keys. Whenever I’d want to go from B to A or to C, I use food or write, or sometimes go for a walk; observe people and then write.

Am I able to get happiness with this exercise all the time?

No, all the time it isn’t needed even. I can handle the situation, even when I’m totally upset (like B) for some quite a long duration.

I need to go to happy state only when I feel really drenched and uneasy; body reacts in different manner at times like this. There I use my findings.

So, I use the outcomes to monitor and use the trick as and when needed.

Can I do better?

Yes, of course. I am now focusing to change my grooves on key. From Food, I’m trying to go to walk for all the time.

Magic is in finding these things. Once you know where you are holding in, you can dissolve easily.

One of the clients has created a list for anger issues. His things are,

1.  I'll kill you
2. I'll blast the premise
3. I’ll just going to play it cool

Since, he’s find the intensity, he is working on one more exercise to get new personality developed.

Even his findings are shocking.

He is the person who would kill someone if they’re not paying attention, not if they’re bothering, upsetting, demotivating or even cheating.

He is just concerned about his words and expressions, where he’s on.

If you’re not paying your ears to his speech, he’s going to fuck up with your work, repo, attitude, passion or even with your car. So no wonder he need some attention to his attention issues. And what helps him to shift from A to C or B to C?

You won’t even believe; a pen or a key.

He just presses the objects, till the brain stop reacting on the patterns of A or B and stop releasing the chemicals. Soon a little pattern of pain and object’s outline maybe sends the signal to alter the focus, in his brain.

What’s your happy state?

If you don’t know it yet. Find it.

How?

You know the way now.

Comment or mail me to get some personified advice for making a list.

It’s a freebie so don't worry.

“Find it and celebrate. Life's too short to mourn.”

Love you all!

Click on to read my Life Journal !

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Greetings !

Happy Friendship day All ! And to Me !!

Where are your questions?

(Inspired by: Human life)

“

….do you have Questions?

What? Hello !!..What are you saying?

Yes! Hello !!... Questions, I said? Do you have any?

What you said? Questions?

Yes! Can you hear me? Questions? Do you have any?

Ohhh… Yes! ... Who are you?

………!!

(…call dropped…)

”

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It wasn’t making any sense. I was repeating just two sentences all the time. Can you hear me and Do you have any questions.

I still am not even sure whether she ever meant to call me?

Raining since last two and half days, it was like a cloud burst. I got her call at night. Around nine o’ clock. There wasn’t anything else to do than to watch the pouring sky. I thought it was my dad calling and so I just picked up the call in like three seconds.

She was probably standing on a junction. That crappy announcement voices, you know. My ears were getting pulled out of the skull. So much static. She directly started asking for some train’s arrival time, maybe. She must have thought to call the central enquiry. I made a guess and dared to ask her that does she have any enquiry questions or what, just like the enquiry people. That was absurd, but I did it.

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After so many days, when I am writing this post, that question kicked me. Right on the spot. My poor brain, rumbling in inquisitiveness 

Who am I?

Naah.

I am not Batman!

Anyway.

What would you have replied to who are you?

Obviously there wasn’t much time to speak. Neither had I wanted to disclose my identity over a call, to a stranger; who does, I mean?

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Someone from the office posted last weekend, “…blah blah…looking for a Miracle…” on Facebook.

Gosh! That was epic.

Finding a Miracle on FB?

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What I liked the most about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is the Ministry of magic’s that statute with the quote;

“Magic is Might”

"A gigantic statue of black stone dominated the scene. It was rather frightening, this vast sculpture of a witch and wizard sitting on ornately carved thrones...Engraved in foot-high letters at the base of the statue were the words Magic is Might...Harry looked more closely and realised that what he had thought were decoratively carved thrones were actually mounds of carved humans: hundreds and hundreds of naked bodies, men, women, and children, all with rather stupid, ugly faces, twisted and pressed together to support the weight of the handsomely robed wizards."

—Description [src]

It had two sides.

One, what Harry was thinking, and one what the statue was meant to depict.

The scene is of Ministry of magic, where all the power had been surged to the people who always fought for, with and to these powers. Harry’s point was bit liberal and equalitarian.

He always tried to balance the insidious powers to neutrality. All his acts of heroism against the Lord Voldemort were not sign of anguishing revenge or requital, to me.

He had never thought of draining Lord Voldemort  out of the power and be the next him or be the Albus Dumbledore. It was not the plan and places to be, either. Neither the best nor the worst served well in the story. They just played their roles.

The statue was the key here. It was the bridge igniting an equalitarian Harry. He at the end, found all the Horcruxes and turned the balance on.

(Premise and plot were designed for excitement and not for philosophy. If you understand them, only one of the both, Harry or Lord Voldemort, was to live. One had to survive over other for that)

Why was he trying to be an equalitarian?

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I was visiting an old friend. He now stays at Ashram. I was having few days off from the trip so thought to refresh some old memories. We were walking on the shores of Indian Ocean in the evening. View was amazing. Mesmerizing, I would say. A serene beauty. 

Whole Ocean was bathing in the orange lights of setting Sun.

He is an MD. We were discussing policies for Swine flu pandemic erupted that time. I knew I will ask him this thing. I had to. I narrated the incident of that mysterious call and question. Asked him over the dinner. The same question, which was boggling my mind since that night.

“

…what are your questions?

I don’t have any !

Come on ! You know that isn’t the answer what I want.

Ohh…you don’t need any answers, believe me.

I need it Doc. That night is whirling in my mind. I just need to get rid of it. So no more mystery, please.

You didn’t get me. Did you ?

You know me, I am not that smart !!

I don’t have any answers, for I’m the question.

(….conversation dropped….)

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This wasn’t settled. I knew he would give this sort of explanations. I never was able to get his thinking. Not a single time. He was literally like a living puzzle.

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Let’s sum up…!

This was a very confusing post, I know.

• We’ve questions
  
• Questions bother us
  
• Questions arise only when there’re choices (Harry or Lord Voldemort; Albus Dumbledore or Lord Voldemort; event or identity; known or puzzel)
  
• No choice is a wise choice (Equalitarian Harry)
  
• Magic is Might; so don’t expect the miracles on Facebook won’t solve the question, nor the magic, else there’d have not been a Harry Potter saga
  
• Doctors are still a puzzle to the society and so is their hand writings

For the first time in last five posts: A bonus point to sum up…

• When I say, magic can’t give the answer and no choice is a good choice, be aware; neither the Money, Power, Positions, Relations, Booz, Sex nor even the Life, can be the answer. So if you have these or a magic wand, you’re still bound to get questions.

Answers will always get you satisfactions. They’re not the guarantee, there will not be any more questions, and neither can they bring a choice-less state.

Then what is the answer?

If I have understood the Doc a bit, there aren’t any, and perhaps, we don’t even need any.

May be we’re the answers.

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