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_8.7.2021_ Some kinds of birds can fly for so long and so far. They can cross a sea. They do not eat more than normal birds who can't do it. What is the secret? Some kids are also very active from early morning to the late of night. They do not eat more than any normal kids. Some people can work for fifteen hours and always looked energetic some others can barely more their body after working for eight hours. It seems like more they spend their energy, more they have the energy to be spent. Poor people spend very little and they can earn very little as well, rich people spend very much and they can earn more than that. (Matthew 13:12): “For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.” (New King James translation). From this verse people easily conclude that the rich get richer the poor get poorer. This is why it's important to be outlier. Do not be slightly better than others, be much much better, do not do slightly more, do much much more. It seems that energy gains more energy, power gains more power, money gains more money. The most productive writers can write a hundred times more than the least productive ones. The question is "how they do it?" They have the same 24 hours a day, the same resistance they must fight every single day. Yet they have unlimited energy to write. A polyglot can speak more than twenty languages while others struggle with two. They do not have higher IQ scores, or special talent on languages because they didn't do well at school. If there is a secret, it's the ability to work hard. The energy comes from love the job not from fear. Fear is a great source of energy as well. "Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.” -Marcel Proust. High energy person can be a CEO of several successful companies while low energy person can't even clean his own room. He procrastinates to do everything because he has no energy to do it now. It's like a sick person who has no desire to do anything. It's important to be ambitious if one wants to be successful. He needs to outwork everyone else in his arena. There is no shortcut and easy path to success. The law of conservation of energy states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed - only converted from one form of energy to another. Most people never meet their potential. They use less than 50% of their capacity. Probably they use only 20% of their capacity. Their unused energy will be preserve in another form, mostly fat. Most marathon runners have slim body, yet they have enough energy to run very long distance. The birds who can fly far and high are also less heavy than say ostrich or chicken. Some ducks can fly and some others cannot. It depends on their habit. Practice makes better if not perfect. The best swimmers swim all the time, the best runners run all the time. The best writers write all the time. You can't do something rarely and become the best on that thing. The mastery depends on deliberate practice or at least habit. Animals in the wild life do not do deliberate practice. But one cheetah can run faster than others. It's the habit can differentiate them. Naturally they are the same. Those who speak twenty languages have the same nature and potential to those who can only speak one or two. The habit separates them apart. One may say that it's the talent that differentiate people. Tell people do meditate, it basically do nothing. Still, it needs huge energy to do nothing. Those who practice more will be better meditators. A marathon runner can run for ten hours quite easily but definitely can't meditate for ten hours, even one hour can be very difficult for him. A writer can write for ten hours which is impossible for non-writer. So it's deliberate practice on certain area that makes people good at it. Everything needs practice if you want to be good at it. If you want to be excellent, you need to practice much much more. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” (Aristotle). It's known for more than two thousand years since Aristotle or even long before that. People are ignorance. They do not do what necessary to gain the mastery, they can only complain about a lot of things. People often do the opposite of what necessary. It's cruel optimism. It's self-sabotage. I want to have a beautiful body like a bodybuilder and yet I do not exercise, rather I eat too much. I contradict myself. I do not do what it takes to be one. All people want to be rich, but they spend their time on social media and other entertainments. They should work hard as hard as possible and learn how to earn more money. They should not waste their time and energy for nothing. Ask those people who fail to be rich, you will learn that they do not do what it takes, they complain about life, they are ignorance and clueless about their goal. Success is predictable and doable. It's like meditation. If you are stubborn enough and never give up on it, you will make it. It's not easy but it's worth the effort. You can't win a battle merely rely on luck, hope, and pray to god. The outcome is predictable. A great general will win all the battles for his knowledge on the warfare. The loser can say that it's the destiny to win or lose, it's not. If a lion fight with a sheep, you can tell who will win. The lion has more energy and skill in fighting. There is no way it will lose to a weak sheep. It's not unfair, it's life. The sheep must learn not to fight a lion.