<ul><li>Start with a visionary founder who is obsessed with product design, who is an engineer by trade, and who is a natural salesman. Most companies don’t even get past this first step. Hopin did because we have Johnny.</li><li>Hire just engineers as contractors and one other generalist entrepreneur who can write, sell, and help customers succeed.</li><li>Build a great product with a viral growth loop built into it. </li></ul>(continue below)

Hypergrowth Playbook: Steps to Hopin’s 6 Months of Rapid Growth

<ul><li>Work closely with key ICPs to shape your product roadmap. Remember that the market you start out serving may not be the market you end up dominating in. With Hopin, we began with solopreneurs, boutique agencies, and influencers but accelerated upmarket quickly.</li><li>Hire more engineers.</li><li>Sign your first annual contracts to anchor desirable customers.</li><li>Begin talking with investors about a pre-seed or seed round.</li><li>Hire a customer success person, a support person, and a salesperson with a proclivity for ops.</li></ul>(cont. below)

Hypergrowth Playbook (cont. 1) 

<ul><li>Launch in early access. Build a waitlist, letting in customers slowly. Use a lean marketing tech stack like Hubspot CRM, Zapier, Stripe, and Typeform. This waitlist is your community. StreamYard has an amazing blueprint for building a community of raving fans.</li><li>Get customer permissions to use recognizable logos and publish select case studies with good logos and/or numbers. These case studies reflect back to the market the type of customers you are built for (i.e., enterprise vs. SMBs)</li><li>Hire a PR firm to build buzz.</li></ul>(cont. below)

Hypergrowth Playbook (cont. 2)

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Hire more engineers. Begin to focus on organization, product management, and start to work with GTM on a customer-friendly product release process. Hire a product marketer. ARWAG. Always Release With A GIF.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Scale the sales team to do demos and close more deals. Bring in a business operations (biz ops) leader.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Scale the success and support teams. The better the product, the smaller these should be. The more complicated the product, the larger these teams need to be. Also, in hyperscaling, support content becomes outdated fast so build in a process for keeping it fresh and up to date.</li></ul>(cont below)

Hypergrowth Playbook (cont. 3)

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">You should be working with 5+ agencies by now to outsource most of your marketing efforts (brand, creative, paid ads, SEO, content, events, and PR). Write clear briefs. Bring vendors into Slack. Be quick to move on from agencies who are not good fits.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Experiment with pricing. Where do you want to be in the market compared to competitors? Ideally, you can offer a free version that has your branding watermarked somewhere (feed the viral growth loop). Also, always be working on the next plan up.</li></ul>(cont. below)

Hypergrowth Playbook (cont. 4)

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Leverage community feedback (a Facebook group is fine) and user surveys (HotJar is great) for identifying the must-have features that will move customers up to the next plan.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Product/market fit is when growth numbers are up and to the right WoW for a dependable amount of time. The waitlist should be swelling. Customers should be regularly writing happy reviews, if not, incentivize them, getting you to the top of the review sites where your customers are researching products.</li></ul>(cont. below)

Hypergrowth Playbook (cont. 5)

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Couple the launch with your Series A announcement, directing traffic to your first customer event where you announce a flagship feature.</li></ul>

Hypergrowth Playbook (cont. 6)

“If you haven’t done something at least three times successfully, don’t assume you know how to do it successfully.”

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">There’s a lot of insecurity when you’re doing something you’ve never done before.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">But I wasn’t alone. No one had experienced this type of rapid growth before. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">When you realize everyone else is neck-deep in imposter syndrome just like you, it’s mildly reassuring. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">What matters is that you keep learning, keep driving, keep experimenting, and keep solving problems wherever you are. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Constantly ask yourself the question, “What am I not seeing?” to try to stretch your thinking.</li></ul>

Everyone has imposter syndrome.

Self-protection is the enemy of growth. Rigidity is the number one way to fail as an early startup employee. The sooner you can learn to let go, the sooner you can help grow the company and grow as a professional.

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Don’t be afraid to sell a feature that isn’t quite in production yet. Sell the roadmap. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Not only does it light a fire under the whole company to delight a client by delivering by a deadline, it also is highly probable that by the time it’s shipped, you’ll have just gotten through legal and procurement.</li></ul>

Roadmap marketing.

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">This is simply a startup-y way of restating Steven Covey’s principle “Begin with the end in mind.” </li><li class="ql-align-justify">The key to early-stage rapid growth is to not just think and talk about ideas, but to attach everything you spend your time on to its external impact on the customer and on revenue. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Don’t waste time with grand plans and six-month strategy decks at this stage — they’ll need to be updated or thrown out completely as changes happen rapidly and it’s impossible to predict anything beyond a quarter. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">You need to be thinking two steps ahead while always delivering on the now.</li></ul>

Think in deliverables.

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Adaptability and flexibility are key to hyperscaling. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">“Be like water” was a common management mantra at Hopin used to remind the company to stay agile, embrace change, roll with the bumps, don’t take yourself too seriously, and be ready for any curveball the market might throw at us.</li></ul>

“Be like water.”

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">In the early days, speed wins. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Hopin became known for shipping features fast. Almost every week we would release a capability just in time for a big event to showcase it. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">This speed and responsiveness helped us bring in whales and beat out the competition. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Quality was also massively important and we evolved to emphasize both speed and quality for our long-term strategy and customer success.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Speed and quality tend to be at odds with each other. Every startup needs to balance both but also needs to decide which one they’re optimizing for.</li></ul>

Move at Hopin Speed

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Hopin has acquired five companies: StreamYard, Streamable, Jamm, Attendify, and Boomset. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">It's important for the acquiring company to not come in with guns a-blazing. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">You’re not coming in as a superior but as a supporter. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Don’t disrupt the good that’s currently going on. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Instead, become a student. Learn what’s working and what’s not and even when you see inefficiencies, resist the temptation to give orders. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">It takes more than a few meetings to understand what’s really going on. Do an extended listening tour. There’s no need to prove anything. Simply take the time to build trust. </li></ul>

Acquisitions are the Ultimate Test of Adaptability, Trust

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">As managers, feedback won’t happen unless you ask for it. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">It also won’t happen unless you free up the calendar space for it. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Being back to back all day every day sends the message that you’re too busy to talk through something. </li></ul>

Don’t just Ask for Feedback, Make Space for it.

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Armando showed me an interesting insight about managing and metrics. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Several times, I’ve been in a meeting where someone reports on their metrics and Armando will kindly interrupt and ask something to the effect of, “But what is the number you care most about and why.” </li><li class="ql-align-justify">He asks them what is the true north they’re optimizing for. He wants to know why it is important to them. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">It’s such a clarifying and focusing question. By asking it, it cuts out the surface level cruft numbers and vanity metrics and goes right to the person’s core operating strategy and how they measure it.</li></ul>

The question that cuts right to the true north metrics

A good manager is generous. <ul><li>They listen, genuinely curious about how their direct reports are doing inside and outside of work. </li><li>They reflect, coach, unblock and share helpful context.</li><li>They ask permission to give feedback. </li><li>They deliver feedback with clarity and objectivity.</li></ul>Bad managers are defensive. <ul><li>Instead of listening, they have a list of tactics for you to do. </li><li>They never ask for feedback. Or permission. </li><li>They’re too vague and dodgy when they give feedback, if they give it at all. </li><li>They don’t make time on their calendars for you. </li><li>They make problems bigger. They make problems personal.</li></ul>

Good Managers vs. Bad Managers in 1:1s

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Being strategic is a direct indication of how big you’re thinking. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Fast-moving companies need articulate big thinkers. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Thinking big means seeing the big picture, setting the right goals, and envisioning not only the desired state of the future but also the KPIs, systems and processes and team it takes to achieve it. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Thinking small looks like just a list of KPIs. It looks like achievable and predictable goals. It looks like a document or deck that is unclear, unstructured, and hard to follow.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Your strategy is a reflection of your experience. </li></ul>

Be Strategic 

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">They don't just articulated the problems, goals, plans, people, and metrics of the next quarter, they also have the story, the narrative, that they’re creating. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">They can confidently describe what the future looks like. And it often looks like a version of something they’ve experienced in the past or from history or from another player in the market that they’ve studied. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">They have a model they’re building off of.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Once you have the story, the last part of being an effective strategic thinker is the ability to communicate it and gain internal traction and 360 buy-in.</li></ul>

The Sign of a Good Strategic Thinker 

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Prerecorded content didn’t resonate with the audience as well as live content. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">When viewers realized the prerecorded content wasn’t live, they began criticizing the content in the chat. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">But during the live content, such as the panel, the audience was more involved in the discussion, asking questions and responding to points in the chat.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">The observation is that polished, scripted, and produced video isn’t always better than off-the-cuff, unedited live video. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Often, the benefit of live streaming is a more genuine and authentic feel.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Connect with the audience and share authentic stories with them.</li></ul>

Authenticity isn’t Polished

"Content quality trumps production quality."

Always have a project that puts you out there. <ul><li class="ql-align-justify">A project that puts you out there could be anything — an app, a website, a blog, a product, a consulting service, a book, a side project, a hobby, a community, an event. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">As long as you’re consistently working on it and therefore being seen and meeting new people, it’s just a matter of time before you get lucky. </li></ul>

How to Get Lucky 

Learning from what worked from others experience bears a lot of wisdom. Nonetheless, it is through our own actions and experience that'll make true difference in our own lives. Hope this inspires and serves as useful guidance to all of us. 

I just celebrated my two-year anniversary at Hopin, having joined the company when it was just a few months old and in beta — pre-revenue, pre-funding, no full-time employees. Today, Hopin is over…

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Adopting an alter ego and thinking of yourself as a separate entity can:<ul><li>Reduce anxiety, </li><li>Increase your perseverance on challenging tasks,</li><li>Boost your self-control.</li></ul>This is known as the Batman Effect.

Batman Effect

One way of making it through the circumstances that are devised to compel you to give up is to form an alter ego that always leverages the opportunity.This is called “the Batman Effect”- coined owing to Bruce Wayne’s continuous struggle to suppress obstacles being a mere mortal that refers to kids doing better in tasks if they simulate some other character who is majorly successful in those tasks.

How can you keep moving when something is frustrating, painful, or boring?

Earlier investigations have revealed that kids pretending to be proficient media characters continue longer on tedious tasks and do better on executive function tasks versus kids thinking about themselves from the first-person point of view. Taking the viewpoint of individuals more efficiently than themselves enables kids to reflect on the challenge and perceive it from various angles. It forms mental space or “psychological distance” between themselves and the effort-intensive task and helps them picture an exemplar.

Kids pretending to be proficient media characters continue longer on tedious tasks

The Batman Effect is an active cognitive strategy that moves us forward with confidence as we stay in a stressful situation but with our alter-ego leading the charge. 

Thinking of yourself as a separate entity can reduce anxiety, while also kicking up some major benefits for your confidence and determination.

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The Batman Effect: How having an alter ego empowers you

The universe that we see is really what we are within.The world looks happy when we are joyous—and gloomy when we are melancholy.The inner and outer worlds reflect one another in a circle of action and reaction, where every action or reaction of ours—determined by what we are feeling within—transforms our experience of the outer world.

Relation Between Self and the World

The result of my reality depends on my reaction to it.At every step, every day, our reactions to hundreds of situations determine the outcome of that moment, that day, week, and even year.We can even say that our reactions to people, to ideas, to the monsters in our head determine what we call our destiny.

Interaction of Self and the World

Only inner unity, inner stillness, peace within ourselves can bring positive attitude and actions in our reactions to the situations.

Being positive in situations

The fundamental design of the universe remains consistent.If you know the atomic, you know the cosmic.Know the atman to know the brahman

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Understanding a Peaceful Path in a Violent World

Winner of the 2018 Wilbur Award There are more than one billion Hindus in the world, but for those who don’t practice the faith, very little seems to be understood about it. Followers have not only built and sustained the world’s largest democracy but have also sustained one of the greatest philosophical streams in the world for more than three thousand years. So, what makes a Hindu? Why is so little heard from the real practitioners of the everyday faith? Why does information never go beyond clichés? Being Hindu is a practitioner’s guide that takes the reader on a journey to very simply understand what the Hindu message is, where it stands in the clash of civilizations between Islam and Christianity, and why the Hindu way could yet be the path for plurality and progress in the twenty-first century.

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Winner of the 2018 Wilbur Award There are more than one billion Hindus in the world, but for those who don’t practice the faith, very little seems to be understood about it. Followers have not only built and sustained the world’s largest democracy but have also sustained one of the greatest philosophical streams in the world for more than three thousand years. So, what makes a Hindu? Why is so little heard from the real practitioners of the everyday faith? Why does information never go beyond clichés? Being Hindu is a practitioner’s guide that takes the reader on a journey to very simply understand what the Hindu message is, where it stands in the clash of civilizations between Islam and Christianity, and why the Hindu way could yet be the path for plurality and progress in the twenty-first century.

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The ABCs of leadership - Architect, Bridger & Catalyst.

The ABCs Principle

Our work as a leader is to identify, let the talent aura come together, cherish for the good. As Jack Ma says, "Its the most difficult task, to make the genius brains come & work together in a single room"

Architect 

We don't need to hustle for the opportunities & tools we possess. We need to pick up the tools & talent from outside the game. Ex- Billion Dollar Unicorns still need professional consultants along the way to aid them in their work & employee relations.

Bridger

Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change & to accept a common vision of desired outcome.

It is when you co-establish an untapped market, for targeting the multi-level growth.Ex- Google creating its own smartphones to let it leverage its maximum software rights.

Catalyst 

"More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together"

Today, it’s less about getting people to follow you to the future, more about getting them to co-create it with you. Harvard Business School’s Linda A. Hill, co-author of “Collective Genius”, spells out the new ABCs for leading innovation. 00:00 When organizations can’t innovate, it’s because they don’t have the right leadership. 01:06 The new ABCs of leadership: Architect, Bridger, and Catalyst 01:28 A: Architect: Build your company’s culture and capabilities for innovation. 02:12 B: Bridger: Forge partnerships outside your organization. 03:11 C: Catalyst: Accelerate co-creation across the entire ecosystem. 04:15 Real-world example: Pfizer turns vendors into partners. 05:18 These roles require new ways of thinking about power. This video is part of an HBR Big Idea. As HBR turns 100, we look back on our original mission, how we’ve changed, and what the future holds: https://hbr.org/2022/09/improving-the-practice-of-management-then-and-now For more from Linda A. Hill, check out, ""Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation": https://www.amazon.com/Collective-Genius-Practice-Leading-Innovation/dp/1422130029 Follow Harvard Business Review: https://hbr.org/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/harvard-business-review/ https://www.facebook.com/HBR/ https://twitter.com/HarvardBiz https://www.instagram.com/harvard_business_review Sign up for Newsletters: https://hbr.org/email-newsletters #HarvardBusinessReview #Leadership #Innovation Copyright © 2022 Harvard Business School Publishing. All rights reserved. #HarvardBusinessSchool #Power #Business #Explainer #Success #HowTo #Harvard

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Today, it’s less about getting people to follow you to the future, more about getting them to co-create it with you. Harvard Business School’s Linda A. Hill, co-author of “Collective Genius”, spells out the new ABCs for leading innovation.

00:00 When organizations can’t innovate, it’s because they don’t have the right leadership.
01:06 The new ABCs of leadership: Architect, Bridger, and Catalyst
01:28 A: Architect: Build your company’s culture and capabilities for innovation.
02:12 B: Bridger: Forge partnerships outside your organization.
03:11 C: Catalyst: Accelerate co-creation across the entire ecosystem. 
04:15 Real-world example: Pfizer turns vendors into partners.
05:18 These roles require new ways of thinking about power. 

This video is part of an HBR Big Idea. As HBR turns 100, we look back on our original mission, how we’ve changed, and what the future holds:
https://hbr.org/2022/09/improving-the-practice-of-management-then-and-now

For more from Linda A. Hill, check out, ""Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation": https://www.amazon.com/Collective-Genius-Practice-Leading-Innovation/dp/1422130029

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Live in Day-Tight Compartments "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at distance but to do what lies clearly at hand"“Life is a ceaseless change, the only certainty is TODAY”

1. Analyse the situation & think what Worst can happen.2. Assume that the worst has happened. 3. Now devote your time and energy to trying to improve the worst.

3-Step formula to solve worry situation

Happy the man, and Happy he alone,He who can call to-day his own,He who, is secure within can say,Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.

<ol><li class="ql-align-justify">Healthy Religion (Have it or don’t)</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Good Sleep</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Good Music</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Good Laughter</li></ol>Have these, Health and happiness will be yours.

4 Relaxing and Recreating Forces

Businessman who don't know how to fight worry, die young.

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Get the facts</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Analyse the facts</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Arrive on a decision</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Act on that decision</li></ul>

How to solve the situation

It is difficult to worry while you are busy doing something that requires planning and thinking. That's why there is always peace in libraries and laboratories.

For every ailment under the sun there is a remedy or there is none if there be one, try to find it if there be none, never mind it.

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">To get what you want </li></ul>and after that<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">To enjoy it. </li></ul>Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

2 things to aim in life

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Clear your brain and desk of all things except those relating to immediate problem at hand.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Do things in order of their importance. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">When face a problem, solve it then & there.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Learn to Organise, Deputise & Supervise.  </li></ul>

Good Working Habits

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Don't increase your headaches with your income. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Don't imitate others, Find yourself,Be yourself. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Do a good deed everyday to put smile on random face. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Expect ingratitude,its natural. Just give anything for the inner joy of giving. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Count 90% blessings not 10% troubles. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">When criticised, remember - no one kicks a dead dog. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Generally our fatigue is not caused by work, but by worry, frustration & resentment. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Choose work that you enjoy doing. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Be on budget, Spend wisely. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">KEEP ACTIVE KEEP BUSY.</li></ul>

Some little but important insights.

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Most of the diseases in the world are caused by worrying and thinking about them all the time.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Confusion is the chief cause of worry.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">It's now called ‘Occupational therapy’- when work is prescribed as though it were a medicine. e.g. Outdoor activity like fishing, hunting, playing ball, taking pictures, making gardens, dancing, singing etc. So, the remedy for worry is to get completely occupied doing something constructive.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">99% of the things we worry about, never happens.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Let the past bury, it's dead. Don't saw sawdust.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Sticks and stones may break my bones yes what words can never hurt me.</li></ul>

Some More from the book

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Appreciate what you already have like your body, breath, everything around you.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Let's remember that gratitude is a cultivated trait, so if we want our children to be grateful, we must train them to be grateful.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Prescription for low mood or melancholy- try to think every day how are you can please someone. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">People who live on a budget are happier people.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Try to build credit, in the event you must borrow.</li></ul>

Contd.

The book 'How to stop worrying & start living' suggest many ways to conquer worry and lead a wonderful life. The book mentions fundamental facts to know about worry and magic formula for solving worry-some situations. Psychologists & Doctors' view: • Worry can make even the most stolid person ill. • Worry may cause nervous breakdown. • Worry can even cause tooth decay • Worry is one of the factors for High Blood Pressure. • Worry makes you tense and nervous and affect the nerves of your stomach. The book suggests basic techniques in analysing worry, step by step, in order to cope up with them. A very interesting feature of the book is 'How to eliminate 50% of your business worries'. The book offers 7 ways to cultivate a mental attitude that will bring you peace and happiness. Also, the golden rule for conquering worry, keeping your energy & spirits high. The book consists of some True Stories which will help the readers in conquering worry to lead you to success in life. The book is full of similar incidences and narrations which will make our readers to understand the situation in an easy way and lead a happy life. A must read book for everyone.

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The book 'How to stop worrying &amp; start living' suggest many ways to conquer worry and lead a wonderful life.  The book mentions fundamental facts to know about worry and magic formula for solving worry-some situations.  Psychologists &amp; Doctors' view:  •	Worry can make even the most stolid person ill.  •	Worry may cause nervous breakdown.  •	Worry can even cause tooth decay  •	Worry is one of the factors for High Blood Pressure.  •	Worry makes you tense and nervous and affect the nerves of your stomach.  The book suggests basic techniques in analysing worry, step by step, in order to cope up with them.  A very interesting feature of the book is 'How to eliminate 50% of your business worries'.  The book offers 7 ways to cultivate a mental attitude that will bring you peace and happiness. Also, the golden rule for conquering worry, keeping your energy &amp; spirits high.  The book consists of some True Stories which will help the readers in conquering worry to lead you to success in life.  The book is full of similar incidences and narrations which will make our readers to understand the situation in an easy way and lead a happy life. A must read book for everyone.

Dale Carnegie was an American writer and lecturer, and the developer of courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking, and interpersonal skills.

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How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

How to stop worrying & start living

No one's life is going to be perfect, and we cannot be happy 100% of the time. But there are things we can do to make our lives, and others', better, and those things are not necessarily all that complicated. "What are some unwritten life rules everyone must know?"

Unwritten Rules About Life Everyone Should Know 

"If you don't understand something someone is telling you, say so instead of pulling an 'opinion' on the topic out of your a**. There is no shame in not knowing or understanding something." "Refusing to admit you don't know and by extension refusing to learn something new because your ego is hurt is gravely misguided, however."

Stay Humble

"In the song 'Grand Illusion' by Styx, there is a line: ' Don’t be fooled by the radio, tv, or the magazine. Shows you photographs of how your life should be, compared to someone else’s fantasy.'" "So, I guess, the idea that you might not feel like you're living your best life when you compare it with what you're told is supposed to be your best life." " Also along this line, 'Don’t compare your day-to-day life to someone else’s highlights.' Like, don’t compare your life to what bits you see of someone on social media."

Stop Comparing

"If a toddler hands you a toy phone, you answer it."

A Golden Rule for Kids

"Just because someone is family, doesn't mean they're a good person." "It's so wild how people call you a bad person for avoiding your family despite knowing nothing about their family." "Like, 'It doesn't matter what they did, you were in the wrong because they're family,' makes zero sense to me, but other people look at me like I'm the lost one.

"Family" Isn't a Reason

"Not everybody is your friend, so be careful who you vent to. Many people only want juicy gossip and don’t give a s**t about you or your problems." "A good sign of this is when your friend brings you dirt or juicy stuff about someone else that likely was said in confidence or probably shouldn't have been communicated out." " If they do that, your info is equally being dished out." "Putting folks on informational diets is the way to go until you gain a supreme level of mutual trust."

Avoid Gossip

"Under promise and over deliver. People will think you are a genius."

Exceed Expectations

"Don’t ask for somebody else’s opinion and get mad when they tell it to you."

Don't Ask the Question You Don't Want the Answer To

"It never hurts to compliment somebody on the quality of their work, their hobbies, and whatever field are most important to their self-esteem. It always goes a long way."

Compliments Make a Difference

"Your best friend may not consider you to be their best friend."

Friendship Reality Check

"Never let anyone take or disturb your peace. Learn to walk away from toxic people!"

Be Able to Walk Away

"Your feelings are valid, but your reactions may not be." "If you ever find yourself feeling very angry at somebody, and want to give them a piece of your mind either over text, email, or phone, listen to this advice. It’s some of the best I have ever learned." "Write down what you would want to say first, either in a word document or email or whatever, save it, but DO NOT send it. Then, wait at least 12 hours or overnight and revisit what you wrote."

No Sudden Reactions

"After having a cool-off period and some time to gain some clarity, 90% of the time you would have regretted having sent the original message and are usually in a much better place to respond so as to not burn any bridges that you meant to keep." "I’ve always heard of this as having 'restraint of pen and tongue' and is one of the clearest signs of maturity."

"Before you enter and elevator, LET OTHER PEOPLE OUT FIRST, GODD**NIT!"

Elevator Etiquette

"If someone does something unintentionally embarrassing or awkward, you pretend it didn't happen, and if they look at you, you just smile and look away."

Don't Make It Worse

" Admit when you've done something wrong." " Trust your gut." " Nobody thinks as much about you as yourself." " Be kind. Don't be an a**hole."

A Few Golden Tips

" If you need help and it is available, ask for it, take it." "Just because you apologize doesn't mean the other party has to forgive and forget."

"Life actually sucks a lot of the time. If you expect to be happy all the time, you will be sorely disappointed and lost. Instead, work up resilience to the hard times and take your time to enjoy the good times." "It can take so long to learn this, because no one really talks about it, and for some weird reason the only accepted default state is 'happy.'"

The Best of Times and the Worst of Times

" Another factor is how that's basically what you are until 15 years old. Until your basic reptile adult 'survival responsibility' kicks in, we're oblivious and happy most of the time. Then suddenly, the baseline changes, and almost no one is prepared for it, and the only reasonable conclusion is that you're mentally ill and depressed." "That's why I take every opportunity I get to talk about how much life sucks so that people can enjoy it more with less fantastical expectations, lol (laughing out loud)."

There are so many good pieces of advice here, but perhaps the most wonderful thing is that it doesn't take a lot to make someone's day a little better, including your own.

People shared the unwritten rules about life that they felt everyone should know in order to have a better life.

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Unwritten Rules About Life Everyone Should Know

If someone makes a joke out of you, it will only harm you if you let it. Not making eye-contact, not reacting, starting a different meaningful conversation are some usual ways.Result: We want people to act as we will, but reality teaches that people have their own will. Their behaviour isn't up to us.

Joke Mentality

"Add nothing of your own from within & that's the 3nd of it.

In a short hand, we could influence them, but usually they end up following their own mind.Result: Stop spending your precious time on changing their ideology, they will think & speak as they wish, it is a 90% universal rule.

Mindlock Ideology 

Spring-Summer-Rainy-WinterEverything is a cycle as your life. This means temporary. You have got very limited time to live, don't consume it thinking about these temporary human actions.Result: Focus on permanent changes established by the world leaders.

Tempor

Nobody escapes misfortunes, instead of complaining for a bad-luck free life, we should build our fortitude to stupendously handle the adversities.Result: Only a selective things are controllable so, target them, apart from the tragedies which are out of control.

Misfortune 

We pray to the God for preventing the uncertainties, but nonetheless they occur. So, start accepting the post-tragedic situation.Result: Start accepting that you will earn less rather than hustling unnecessarily at a time, disrupting the environment.

Accept The Uncertainty 

Which of the things around us should we value when none of them can offer a firm foothold?Like an attachment to a sparrow: we glimpse it & its gone.

Stoicism for Inner Peace (book): https://einzelganger.co/innerpeace Although he never considered himself a philosopher, Marcus Aurelius’ writings have become one of the most significant ancient Stoic scriptures. His ‘Meditations’ contain a series of notes to himself based on Stoic ideas, one of which is embracing fate and living conformably to the demands of nature. Instead of wanting things to happen as we wish, we’re better off accepting the universe, according to Marcus Aurelius, and developing a flexible attitude towards the outside world while being strict with ourselves (Stop Wanting, Start Accepting | The Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius) Support the channel: ✔️ PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/einzelgangerco ✔️ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/einzelgangster ✔️ Bitcoin: 3HQnEz1LQ4G6dqN2LdZgzc7qoJjJCyWjTC (Donated BTC and want in the credits? Send me an email with the amount/address) 🎞️ Animations and thumbnail art by Munkaa: https://www.youtube.com/user/jus7y Purchase Stoicism for Inner Peace (affiliate links): 📘 Paperback: https://amzn.to/3wB9iHb 💻 Ebook: https://amzn.to/2RdjbKV Purchase Unoffendable (affiliate links): 📘 Paperback: https://amzn.to/2RJYfti 💻 Ebook: https://amzn.to/35e23a5 Merchandise: 🛍️ Shop: teespring.com/stores/einzelgangerstore 🛍️ Merchandise design by Punksthetic Art: https://www.youtube.com/user/JRStoneart Music used: Brian Bolger - Nineties Pad Bobby Richards - Lens VYEN - Amber Creative Commons (attributions): Marcus Aurelius bust (1): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marcus_Aurelius_Ephesus_Museum.jpg Marcus Aurelius bust (2): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marcus_Aurelius_head_sculpture_from_Sagalasos_Turkey.jpg Marcus Aurelius bust (3): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Castings_of_Ancient_Roman_busts_in_the_Pushkin_Museum_(Antonin_Pius,_Marcus_Aurelius_and_Clodius)_by_shakko.jpg Marcus Aurelius statue (1): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Replica_della_statua_equestre_di_Marco_Aurelio_(Roma).jpg Marcus Aurelius statue (2): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marcus_Aurelius_(32393792365).jpg Chris: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chris_Rock_1995.jpg Hera: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wall_painting_-_wedding_of_Zeus_and_Hera_-_Pompeii_(VI_8_3)_-_Napoli_MAN_9559_-_02.jpg Zeno: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paolo_Monti_-_Servizio_fotografico_(Napoli,_1969)_-_BEIC_6353768.jpg #stoicism #marcusaurelius #stoic 00:00 - Intro 01:58 - (1) Accepting other people 04:16 - (2) Accepting transience 07:08 - (3) Accepting misfortune 09:51 - (4) Accepting change 12:50 - (5) Accepting your nature

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Although he never considered himself a philosopher, Marcus Aurelius’ writings have become one of the most significant ancient Stoic scriptures. His ‘Meditations’ contain a series of notes to himself based on Stoic ideas, one of which is embracing fate and living conformably to the demands of nature.

Instead of wanting things to happen as we wish, we’re better off accepting the universe, according to Marcus Aurelius, and developing a flexible attitude towards the outside world while being strict with ourselves (Stop Wanting, Start Accepting | The Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius)

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00:00 - Intro
01:58 - (1) Accepting other people
04:16 - (2) Accepting transience
07:08 - (3) Accepting misfortune
09:51 - (4) Accepting change
12:50 - (5) Accepting your nature

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