Earth your Brain

I previously talked about the various methods on how to Earth your Pain. Earthing the Brain, however, is a totally different experience.

Earthing the Brain is the process of cleaning your brain from past knowledge and experiences and thoughts that you have acquired and instead open your mind to unlimited possibilities without projecting actions on these past experiences.

This is not easy to accomplish. Our experiences basically defines who we are and its difficult to let go of what we are. However, looking at the world with an "Earthed" brain open our eyes to totally new experiences. An Earthed brain can listen more and see more.

You can say an Earthed brain is an application of Zen brain, an empty brain that can accept new knowledge, new experiences. Just like a brain of a kid that never fears to try new things.

An Earthed brain can make us see clearly potential Black Swans and sorta "predict" the unpredictable.

The most important thing, it makes us realize how little we know about the World, thus it teaches us how to listen and learn the most from our surroundings. Basically it makes us climb the mountain of Knowledge higher, except that the 'Ego' dog will cease to follow us up to the mountain.

A Single Random Number holds so much Information

If I told you to think of a number from 1 to 100
the result will be different every time I ask you


Lots of factors affect this number. There are the external factors like the weather (cold, hot, windy, humid) or the internal factors like your mood (sad, happy) , status (married, single), health (fatigue, healthy) etc..

All those factors get fed into the function of your random generator and generate a number that is dependent on these factor.

Imagine if we can hypothetically gathered 100 serial killers and ask them to choose a number between 1 to 100, while we try to fix the other external factors as much as we can. Then chart the results. We do the same with 100 child abusers, 100 nurses. Compare the results

We will get interesting results, we will get pattern.

So whatever random number you select. This number hold information, very valuable information. its not so random after all.

Think of that.

You and I are One

"If you imagine a million dollar in your head, you will work harder and you will make it"

"If you continue thinking that you will be poor your entire life, you will work less and you will not get any money soon"

"If someone's sad sat in a chair and then you come and set in the same chair you're mood will change based on his because the energy transfers those negative signals to you"



I summarize those from books. Books like The Secret, Law of Attraction, Ask and its Given, Money and the Law of Attraction, Law of Connection those books sell because they answer questions. Questions that sat for long time unanswered.

Those books are temporary fillers for gaps about yet unexplained phenomena of a much stronger concept. Those books projects extraordinary acts, that can only be explained by superstitions, into some negative/positive energy concept that leads to particular act of human in a very sexy way manipulating human emotions with explainable yet convincing idea.

That's why they sell.

Quantum physics on the other hand, dictates that everything is governed by set of law of classical physics (Newton laws), but when you go to a small scale, in the level of the atom, different set of laws take over. Those are the quantum laws.

The Quantum laws suggest that we are all one, we are all vibrations of one source called the Super string field or the universal field. We are nothing but frequencies that wave from that.

So what I do, affect the world, what you do affects me, when I'm happy I can make you happy. When I think I affect the world, what I think here in Bahrain affects the mum who sets in her apartment way there in South America.

The question is how? All one day will come into a simple mathematical model that we are can understand.

We are nothing but Waves of Vibrations

Who are you?

Are you the person who I met when he was angry and stressed from work? Or are you the sweet person I met when he just received his yearly Bonus?

Are you the person who yelled at his mother once in his life? Or are you the person who helped that old man 15 years ago?

Its difficult to stay one person everyday.

We are nothing but waves of vibrations with varying frequency.

Hussein yesterday with a frequency (X Mhz), can make a decision, wake up in the morning by a building constructions noise which raises his frequency to (10X Mhz) forming a completely another Hussein, and regrets yesterdays decision.

We are a collection of frequencies like radio channels. We switch from a frequnecy to another based on totally natural random events that hit us. For example, I can think of an idea NOW at time (t1) and later at time (t2) describe it as a silly one.


There is one original frequency that is patently yours ..

The challenge is to find it. Embrace it and yes STICK to it.

Configurable VS Cogs Products

To my experience I can classify a Product into two types Configurable and Cogs Product.

Configurable product
A Configurable product is a product that is wired to a particular algorithm or logic. What really changes are the actual parameters that feeds the logic. Usually those parameters are written as XML configuration file or in tables whatsoever.

Configurable products are fast to develop and easier to test. The reason is that you collect certain requirements and develop this product as per these requirements. The challenge is to make your product as generic as possible so it can fit as many of your clients.

Example
Say I have a product that can draw a map of customers usage of electricity in a given year. This product is configured to take as an input Customer Table Name, the table should contain Location field which represents the location of the customer and the a Load field to create the legend. So you might have the Location field named as CustomerLocation or Customer_Location or Customer_Position or Customer_Lat_Lon doesn't matter. As long as you configure the product correctly you don't need to change your Customer Table name or its fields.

However, the product won't work if you have for example the Load field in a table while the customer data is in another table, because this violate the infrastructure of the product.



Cogs Products
Think of Cogs product as a framework application replaceable Cogs (Classes). So the product is a collection of classes that talk to each other via the Interfaces ONLY. And its important the word interface in this context. Oriented approach plays a major rule in the cogs product. Clients can write their own logic that Implements those interfaces and literally replace the built in logic with their own.

Cogs product require a neat UML design and a decent knowledge of Design Patterns.

Lets have an example.


Example
Lets take again our product in the example above and alter it a bit. The product have a class called DrawMap that Takes in its constructor ICustomer interface. ICustomer interface has method called getLoad and getLocation. The beauty of this design is that I can write my own Customer class lets call it MyWeirdCustomer that implements ICustomer and write the methods getLoad/getLocation which reads from a table or file or whatever and return the load and location respectively. Feed that object to DrawMap class and TADA. It works. The reason is that DrawMap doesn't care what your class is or how it is reading the load or how it is calculating the location. Whether you are asking Google Earth to geocode your location or have your location as native X/Ys; What DrawMap only cares about is that you implements ICustomer and that you have the function getLoad/getLocation.



The best approach is to merge the Cogs Product with Configurable one giving your client the ability to customize their code and have a configurable product. Having a hybird like product

Emotionally 1 + 1 = 1

Applying emotions in Business is like applying it to War. If you decided to launch a War, you should defeat your enemy in order to win, but still you should (not must) have mercy to your enemy.

Success is very difficult with emotions in place. However its not impossible. I'm not suggesting in this post any solutions but rather clarifying some vague point.

In Business (especially banks) this comes into practice that someone can't pay his debt because of lots of personal financial troubles. The bank (or lets say people who work in the bank) have to make this tough decision. They can take his house or they can give him an extension.

This is similar in saying that 1+1 = 1 because the first "1" is having financial problems and its out of the bounds of the moral law to take his "1" and give it to somebody else just to earn 2.

All goes back into the human himself.

You Choose. Just remember

Who are you?

Brainstorming is about Quantity not Quality

Usually when you hear your boss carrying a brainstorming session you panic. Now you have to come up with great ideas or just simply, shut up.

Brainstorming is defined in our work as the process of getting smart ideas and through the junk ones. If an idea that is infeasible the group will start criticizing the owner.

Patrick Mcdermott the author of Zen and the Art of System Analysis propose a unique way to perform Brainstorming.

Brainstorming is about filling the board with crazy ideas without limitation. The most important key is having fun. He insists that Brainstorming is about Quantity instead of Quality. As long as your teams are freely shooting their ideas without any criticism or BUTs/Howevers/NOs. You should get the best out of it.

The more your teams place ideas on the board the more you exercise their brain to produce even more ideas. The quality doesn't matter at this stage. You can later select, combine, remove ideas to create qualitative ideas.

Patrick says he measures the success of his brainstorming sessions by how loud his team laughs and the number of complains he get from the next rooms!

The Car Keys Anomaly

When you open your car with its keys, you're brain is wired 100% that the car will always open. Because you believe it will open no matter what. In fact there is no room for thinking of a slight chance that it won't open.

Now somebody asked me.

What IF I replace your car keys with ones that look just like yours without telling you. You will still be 100% convinced that the car will open with those keys but it won't.

This is interesting claim to make. However, in this case whoever replaced my car keys, his thought wave function is much more stronger than mine. Now HE is 100% sure that my car will not be opened with the keys I have and his conciseness travel in time at the incident event and affect the reality of me being unable to open the car.

The Reason is that we are all entangled and we affect each other thinkings.

Now, suppose for example, if we can assume that a computer did the replacement of the keys (randomly) without you or me having any knowledge what keys the computer will replace, is it the right or wrong. In other words your consciousness and thinking doesn't play any rule in this process. I will always open the car no matter what keys the computer selects. Because I am 100% sure that my keys haven't change and I am unaware of this computer replacement process.

There is an exception as well to this paradagm. If you are "Watching" the computer replacing the keys, or thinking that "ok, the computer will pick the wrong keys.." this also affects the result, or say you have a desire that the computer to replace my keys with wrong keys. In this case its up to the uncertainty prenciple. You may say its a battle between my conciouness and yours. Most probably I will win.

So for this thought expirment to be true, you shouldn't be able to play any rule in it by any means. That means, you should place that machine in a closed room and let it do the keys replacement.

OK, Someone somewhere must have picked keys so similar to his keys but are not his, he was 100% convinced they were his keys, no one has interfered in him picking the wrong keys, yet I'm willing to wager they were unable to open his car.

Great

The car keys will not open in two cases:

1. If our guy discovered that those keys aren't his before he actually opens the car. The keys won't open.

2. If our guy (or anyone else) WILL discover sometime in the future, say after one month or two months or two years that the keys aren't his. The car will not open NOW. This is an example of how the future can affect the past. (I will elaborate on this more)

The car keys will ALWAYS open in one case.

1. If our guy didn't discover that the keys are not his, or he (or anyone else) WILL NEVER discover in the future that the keys are not his. The car will always open. Thats because there is a full synchronization between the future, the past and the present (The now).

This is a simple example of how the future can affect the present. In the Quantum world, we are entangled with our future self and our past self. So anything you do now affects the future and anything you might be doing in the future will affect the present.

I would love to fail

The last thing we want to do is to fail. I don't get on the stage and present because I might screw up and the audience will laugh. I don't write a book because some of my friends who think I'm still young will make fun of me if my book sold zero copies. I don't dance because I might make a fool of myself.

We fear failure because its embarrassing. So we have built this behavior that failing or being wrong is the worst thing we can do.

We live in the world of TV and movies where heroes don't make mistakes and do things perfectly. A simple equation that always apply, if you fail, you suck. No room for mistakes, quitters are losers, winners never quit.

Good judgment comes from Experience, unfortunately, Experience comes from bad judgment and failure. - Jim Horning

So we have only one source to good judgment and its experience. And Experience comes from failure the very thing that we afraid of.

Let us all pull our strength from this little girl
The Little Girl Story
There was a school girl who don't pay attention to classes. One day in the drawing class, the teacher noticed that she is really focusing on her drawings The teacher approached her and asked her.

Teacher: "What are you drawing?"
Girl: "I'm drawing a picture of GOD"
Teacher, amazed: "Okay, but, no one knows what GOD looks like."
Girl: "They will in a minute."

The girl didn't put any restrictions, its in her nature, she just want to try everything. She didn't care about failing. I previously wrote an article about thinking like kids. Here it is if you are interested more in this subject. Maybe they can teach us a lesson.

Research: Hussein's Frog Experiment

This thought experiment is somehow similar to Schrödinger's cat Experiment of Quantum Physics.

Hussein's Frog
The experiment goes as follows. If you ask a random person, whom you don't know, to think of an object. Then instructed him to obtain that object, place it in a box and seal that box. Assuming a condition this person does not disclose the content of the box to anyone. We will have a sealed box with an object that only one person in the entire world, our world, knows what is it.

The second step of this experiment takes place after that person leave this world, (i.e. dead). Next, fetch the box and before opening it, wish for a frog to be in that box. Imagine the frog inside the box before opening it and when you do open that box, you will always find a frog, or whatever you wish for. The frog, according to Schrödinger's, will be of course both alive and dead at the same time up until the moment we upon the box.

Why is that?
The reason, according to quantum physics, is that whatever was inside that box was there because our person puts it there. He knows about it, he was the only one affecting its existence. With our person gone, the box can freely contain ANYTHING depending on the power of the direct wave function affecting that box.

Exceptions
If the person we instructed to take the object told someone about the content of that box, the box content will snap "back" into that reality. If people start guessing whats inside the box you get all those probabilities and its up to the strongest wave thought function (or the sum of the thoughts with the same frequency) to create the reality. Basically uncertainty principle plays the major rule here.

So for our experience to be effective you shouldn't tell anybody about it.