No End In Sight

USAGE IN COMPETITION

A way to impress (and therefore force to surrender or quit) your enemy is to show no-end-in-sight in will, resources and reinforcements. They would not fight till end because they see no end. They will freak out and quit early, very early.

You cannot avoid taking losses but you can reduce their sense of achievement to near zero by quick replacement / rebuilding of what is lost.

You cannot avoid choke points but you can reduce your vulnerability by keeping a stock of redundant candidates that can fill the spot once your only trade route is blocked, your only sea port is burned to ashes or your great leader is assassinated.


Dents in your castle, holes in your formations, fatigue on your face, absence of replacements etc are silver linings in black clouds for your enemy. Prevent or atleast hide them so your enemy never see them.

USAGE FOR HAPPINESS

Any outlet to apparent-infinity at your house is a source of happiness for you. It could be a view of sky or sea or field etc. It not have to be infinite, it just have to appear infinite.

Any outlet to apparent-infinity in your career development is a source of happiness for you. As soon as you see a dead end you lose hope and with it eagerness to work. That is where you end.

Any outlet to apparent-infinity in your hobbies is a source of happiness for you. Sports not work beyond a certain point because its end (world championship) is apparent from start. Arts however provide such an outlet because you can go beyond anybody ever been to.

For purpose of exploration, exploitation and plunder, earth has no-end-in-sight for an individual. Its because in absence of nuking there is no way an individual can exhaust earth's resources. For a sufficiently large group of individuals its not the case even if given whole universe because certain things are available on earth only.

SEVERAL DIMENSIONS

There can be no-end-in-sight in a thing in more than one dimensions. One example is outerspace which has this in all three dimensions. Another example is an empire that may reach a limit on land area because of naval weakness, communication delays etc but still have other no-end-in-sight dimensions such as developing hamlets into villages into tows into cities, technology, arts etc. Yet another example is a person expanding in a hobby though cannot expand in career due to factors beyond his / her control.

IN CV

Suppose you have a topic in your CV, such as Job Experience or Education, that has a size of 1.25 pages. One case is to start it half way on a page, lets say first page and go three quarters on the next page, so it spread from 0.5 pages to 1.75 pages. Second case is to start it on a fresh page, no matter which page, and fill that entire page with it then go on the next page and cover quarter of it. Which approach gets a more favourable approach for you in eyes of reader?

The answer is the second case. Its because it has a no-end-in-sight factor in it. Seeing a page filled entirely by a topic with some part of topic still remaining to be read on next page results in a "sufficient-enough" impression to reader.

IN LECTURING STUDENTS

If you want your students to think a topic is easy enough to be understood, start by showing boundary line of the topic, that way students can see an end. Only then go in detail.

IN ADMINISTRATION

British administrators used to start by taking a trip of land when joining a position. That way they know the limits and can have an easy picture of their duties in mind. Its easier than having a continuous flow of never-heard-before-type-of-problems six months in the position.

IN TASK LISTS

Whenever you have more number of things to do that you can keep in head at one time, write them down. It not matter how complicated or big individual tasks are, if number or count of them is sufficient to result in forgetfulness, make a list of them.

The point of having a list is completeness means that list must contains all tasks. An incomplete list is worse than no list because an incomplete list force you to do mental effort of remembering as well as taking the pain of writing and reading the list.

IN COMPLEXES

A perfectly complex system is such where every part is connected to every other part directly so to understand one flow or one part or one fault you have to understand the whole system. Since as you start at a node (part, flow, path, fault) multiple nodes emerge from it and from each of them multiple and so on so its a no-end-in-sight situation.

A hierarchy on the other end is dead easy to understand because only a few number of things need to be kept in mind at any given time.

IN COMPUTER PROGRAMMING

Any method going beyond a page has a no-end-in-sight factor. Any class having list of methods and fields (one at each line) going beyond a page also has that factor. Any project having list of classes going beyond a screen full of list also has that factor.

This factor is also present in tables that have columns going horizontally beyond width of page.

RELATION WITH NUMBER SIX

The number six is the ultimate number of things a person can handle at a time without grouping. Beyond six we cannot imagine directly i.e. primarily i.e. without grouping. If you have seven different problems and you cannot group them in one heading such as related-to-work, related-to-finance, related-to-family then you get overwhelmed. If six different enemies operating independently attack you simultaneously then you are almost guaranteed to be stunned and defeated. This is why guerilla wars are effective against a very large and organized army. Its because being organized it has to be handle by only one leader whose brain can be easily exhausted by attack at more than six places and being large it cannot be hidden.

Btw, there are only two strategies to handle guerilla war if you happen to be the large and organized one. First is to decentralize and divide yourself in small groups and the other is to focus on one or two goals at the cost of the rest.

IN MANAGEMENT

No manager can actively administer more than six subordinates without having either assistants or grouping subordinates in bundles managed by higher subordinates.

IN MACHINE OPERATORSHIP

No machine operator can actively read more than six instruments.

Brainwashing - Part One

Brainwashing is more common than you think.There is brainwashing in politics, in marketing and even in all non-islam religions.There is brainwashing in science too, especially in modern physics but very little in classical/newtonian physics. However, there is no brainwashing in logic, common sense, islam and nature.

Its hard to have a wrong belief without brainwashing. Once the brainwashing is removed, its like sun shining when clouds go away, the person can see the matter in clear and then is very likely to discard the wrong believes and accept the right believes.

Brainwashing has nothing to do with the validity of the belief itself, you can brainwash a person on both right and wrong believes. Brainwashing however is bad for both wrong and right believes. The reason for the first is obvious and for second is that the brainwashed gets in such a mental state that would not be able to identify pollutions/additions/subtractions from the right belief and would very likely believe the once-right-but-now-wrongly-edited-belief.

What Is Brainwashing? Believing Without Thinking

Brainwashing is when a person is so much impressed by an idea or the person behind that idea, that he start believing it without giving it any thought. The person has just accepted it without questioning, inquiry or even explanation.

How To Identify A Brainwashed Person? Parroting, Avoidance-Of-Questions, Inconsistent answers, Agitation.

The most common and easy to identify trait of a brainwashed person is parroting. When asked about the belief, the person mindlessly repeat the exact words said to him. Since the person is not thinking deeply about the belief, he has not came up with alternate words or phrases to explain his belief.

Another way to find is to ask what-if questions. The immediate reaction of the brainwashed would be a surprise. Since he has never given the idea any logical thought, he has never thought about the questions before. Actually he has not even know that such questions can exist.  Whether or not that person can answer the question is an entirely different thing and do not depend on whether the person is brainwashed. Even a brainwashed person when start thinking logically can answer all the questions about the belief if the belief is right and the person is intelligent enough.

The third way to identify brainwashing is that the brainwashed would try to avoid the questions. Since in a conversation, the answer is expected immediately, and since the brainwashed is thinking about these questions the first time, it can be a great mental work to think depending on the validity of belief, the intelligence of person and the complexity of question, that the first thing the brainwashed try to do is to dodge the questions altogether. When pushed, the next thing the brainwashed try to do is to say that he has not enough information to answer the question. Not having enough information to believe something, yet believing it, is by definition brainwashing. When pushed still, the person try to excuse by saying that he is too busy in routine life that he do not have enough time or energy to answer the question. This again is a wrong excuse, because belief is the most important thing for a person, more important than family, work, money, fun etc.

The fourth way of identification is an inconsistent answer. Inconsistency is when one part of a thing is opposite of another part so much that both cannot coexist. Inconsistency is not invalidity. A fantasy fairy tale can be very consistent internally but is still invalid, false and wrong because fairies don't exist. Inconsistency is when for example it is claimed that certain character in story cannot do certain action and later on that character do that action without any change in power or outside help. Human mind is remarkably tilted towards consistency, even in our dreams when we see inconsistent things our mind come up with some reason or extra images to fulfill the gaps.

The fifth sign is overly respect of the person who originated the idea. You might hear sentences like "How can Einstein be wrong?", "Mr. X is more qualified to speak on this matter than me or you.", "How on earth can you question saint Y?" etc.

Cure Of Brainwashing

Like in other things in life, the best approach is direct approach. Its best both in terms of effectiveness and efficiency. Ofcourse the direct approach comes with its price. The price is that you have to bear the full impact of reaction. So you must be strong enough to handle it. 

The direct approach is to tell the person straightforwardly and immediately that he is brainwashed. Then go on to explain why you think so. If you took the opposite sequence of steps, then when you were trying to explain why he is brainwashed, the brainwashed would start arguing and when you push would stop listening to you entirely. It may happen that the conversation get lost in arguments so much that the message that "you are brainwashed" never go through. 

As warned earlier, be prepare to pay the price of direct approach. Since in direct approach you bravely go in front and attack directly in broad daylight with no hiding you must be strong enough to handle the impact of counter-attack. The brainwashed would probably say that its you who are brainwashed, be prepare to answer that. The brainwashed may get violent, even physically attack you, even in absence of an outright physical attack your relation with the person is likely to suffer. Still in long run the benefits of direct approach are immense. After this initial setback to your relation with that person, once that person stop arguing and fighting and go home and think about it, you are very likely to win. The person may come back with an apology and great admiration towards you, making the relation many orders of magnitude stronger than what it used to. 

Now comes the hard part of explaining why the person is brainwashed. Start with telling him that he is just parroting what he heard, and you know this because you have talked with people of same belief before. Say that you are not saying anything about the validity of the belief. You are just worried that the person is brainwashed and you want the person to start thinking. Ask the person politely to just rephrase what the belief actually is in his own words. Nobody can object this simple request of yours to rephrase his beliefs in his own words, after all if the person do truely believe it then must have his own words to describe it.

 

The brainwashed after thinking is very likely to rephrase the belief in his words. Its because it not take much effort to rephrase something. The person may have left some parts but be sure that he has covered the core of the belief. Now start asking what-if questions. By making the person rephrase the belief, you have made the ground for logical reasoning, and by asking actual questions you have started the process of thinking. What-if questions consists of scenarios, one per question, in which you want to know what the person think is the right thing to do or would happen. Ask a few of these questions, some of these questions have to be related to be used later but don't ask them in sequence so the questions seems random.

Now once the person has rephrased the belief, and answered the what-if questions, link those answers to see inconsistency. If the person is brainwashed there have to be inconsistencies even if the belief is right. This is because the person is thinking about the belief logically for the first time. Make sure that the scenarios in the questions are extreme ones so you have enough ground to play on. Note that if the person is not brainwashed but the belief is wrong then also there would be inconsistencies.

Show those inconsistencies to the person. The person is very likely to say that he has not understood the questions or you have not understood the answers. Ask the questions again. This time he would be careful to have consistent answers. If the answers are consistent with each other and also with the belief, stop there. You have achieved your goal. The person is no more brainwashed but is thinking logically about the belief. Do no more effort. If the answers are not consistent with themselves or with the belief then ask that person to try harder. The person may never be able to come up with consistent answers (within themselves and with the belief) if the person is not intelligent enough or the belief is wrong.

The target here is to make the person think. Start with asking about the belief, the person may or may not parrot the exact words that he has heard somewhere, depending on whether or not the person is brainwashed. Since people like to talk about themselves, its very unlikely that the person deny this simple and polite request to know what the person's belief is. If the person is not parroting then leave the person there, the person is not brainwashed. If the person is parroting then ask the person to rephrase the belief in simple words. Again seeing your interest, the person is unlikely to deny that request and would attempt to use his own words. There, you have started the process of thinking in the mind of the person.

Now ask what-if questions. The person may think that you are questioning the beliefs, say that you just want to know the beliefs more clearly and elaborately. Again its very unlikely that seeing your interest the person deny this request. Whether you agree with the answers or not, whether the answers are right or wrong, you have achieved your target, the person is now thinking logically about the belief. There, you have sown the seed. The person's mind can take over from there.

If you find that the person is not giving you enough attention, or not doing enough effort to answer the what-if questions, or is parroting the answers (this may happen if somebody else has used the technique I am telling you on the person before) then show the person the inconsistencies and ask for more explanation in simple and original words.

The final hit is to ask a simple question of the format: Can in X situation Y happen? This is the extreme that you can go in any logical conversation. Beyond that is outside the realm of logic.

Remember to first make the person state the belief. This ensures that you do not waste your effort attacking a strawman.

Also remember to attack the heart of the belief, not the periphery. March your forces directly to the capital.

Try to be as much brief, direct, polite and listening as you can be without breaking the core of your mission.

Examples Of "Can in X situation Y happen" Questions

(1) All non-muslims have one belief in common, they do not believe in one God. Either they believe that there is no God or they believe that there are multiple ones.

Lets talk about an approach to deal with those who believe in multiple ones. This technique is told by God Himself in quran. Ofcourse you have to first ask them to tell their belief including what they think is definition of God. Then after they have said that they believe that God has absolute power, ask them that if there are multiple then each of them trying to have complete control would try to terminate the other and since none of them can harm the other this would be an eternal war, with no start and no end, and in this war nothing could exist except them. It is because if any of them create anything the other in jealousy would destroy it immediately and totally even from past. Then how come the universe exist?

(2) If length really contract while traveling close to speed of light, that is, is not just an optical illusion, then if an alien launch a spaceship towards us with rest length of 20 m and in-motion length of 10 m and when it reach near earth, say in the orbit of moon, while still in motion, can we capture it in a cage of length 10.1 m?

(3) If universe is infinite having infinite stars, then why gravity is not infinite or why night sky don't have infinite intensity of stars-light?

(4) If I must answer to two equal-level bosses, and they give contradictory orders, which one I should follow and why, why not the other one?

(5) If democracy is assuming that whatever majority of people says is right, then why not discard the democracy itself if majority of people decline to vote (the suicide-of-democracy question)?

(6) How can a certain actress I been watching on tv and in films since 10 years, can be right when claiming that she is beautiful because of a certain fairness cream that is invented just one month ago, what was she using 10 years ago when also she was beautiful?

(7) Why should I believe that you are honest with me when you are literally showing me a false face made up of a thick layer of makeup? What else are you lieing about?

(8) How can I believe that you really care about me or even know what condition I am living in as an ordinary citizen when you the politician is living in a thousand acres house with one hundred servants and one billion dollars in bank?

What Happens Before Success

Like in a path-finding puzzle, a good strategy is to begin at end, then move your way backwards. Its a wise choice to take a look at success stories starting at the success and then see how things has worked out in the right direction. Its a good strategy because often there is only one path to success. All other or most of the other parts lead to failure. If we start from beginning, then we have a thousand paths to traverse, with over 99% of effort going waste.

So, what is there right before success? Its a massive attack, a huge one. Ofcourse that attack was successful, but what if that attack would have actually failed?

Lets look at some examples. The nuclear attacks on japan ended world war 2. Since those two attacks happened within a few days, we can, for convenience combine them in a single attack. The question is, what if that attack was not successful. What if japan would had decide to continue the war. What if japan had some secret weapon to actually prevent such attacks in future, a better air-defense for example.

It turns out, and this is the point of this article, that there were a series of attacks in planning. Nuclear attack was just the first one and luckily for americans it was successful. But, if it was not, there were other equally promising attacks in pipeline, so the outcome was a given anyways.

One such in-pipeline attack was a full scale invasion of japan by america, like d-day. Americans have estimated half a million deaths of their own soldiers. Americans have gone so far as to actually have a special medal made for dead soldiers of that invasion, half a million such medals.

Another such in-pipeline attack was a soviet invasion of japan. At the end of war in europe, soviet union being free to use troops elsewhere, has already broke peace treaty with japan and was rushing forces to the japanese front. Field marshal zhekov, who was the supreme general at field of all soviet troops in all theatres of war was already there in the region, preparing for an attack.

So, what comes before success is a huge blow, the blow that kills the enemy and results in a decisive victory. But, its also important to note that success do not depend on that one blow, there are usually other blows waiting to be used if the first ones fail. So, what comes before the final blow, is a series of equally powerful blows already in motion, its an overkill kind of situation but that is how victory usually comes.

What comes before the series of blow, is huge preparations. Factories producing materials in large quantities. The key is that the rate of production of materials is greater than the rate of those materials getting consumed in field, atleast by a factor of two, and usually by a factor of three or more.

What comes before production of those materials in huge quantity is securing of infrastructure. You have to have your production facilities, your factories, farms and hospitals secured from enemy raids. If you still have to worry about your production facilities getting destroyed then you are far from victory.

So, first you secure your production-facilities. Then you produce huge quantity of materials. Then you set in motion multiple blows, one coming after another, if the first ones fails. Thats how victory comes.

When you are studying something, you are trying to conquer something. Your production facilities here is the time you set aside to study, and necessary stationary stuff such as writing materials and books. You are constantly invaded by job duties if you are working, house errands especially if you are living alone and other stuff that keep you away from studies. Your first step must be to secure your production facilities. You can do that in a variety of ways. One such way is to hide. For sometime escape from above mentioned distractions and focus. Reduce trips to market, friends and parties to the minimum. Once this is achieved, attack your target, the subject you are trying to study from multiple fronts. One front might be understanding the philosophy, another the need, yet another the practicality, yet another applications and experiments. Its like starting at multiple positions simultaneously, then moving towards target in parallel on multiple paths. Soon, thing get connected. One chain fit in another. You see how a particular need is met by a particular practical method that might not be very beautiful. How a certain philosophy matches boundaries of a certain experiment etc.

Fall of soviet union came from a three-prong attack: the afghan war, reduction of oil prices, arms race with americans. With afghan war getting long and more and more expensive for soviets, arabs flooded market with oil far above demand hence reducing prices. Since soviet union was an oil exporter, this alone reduces income of soviets to a third. While having extra burden of supporting a war, america started an arms race and since soviets had to run with that arms race, the total effect of these three killed soviet union. In this case, unlike the situation above, the three blows acted in parallel. Ofcourse the blows did not start in parallel. Afghan war started in 1979 and got deep after 1983. Oil flood came around 1985. Arms race started around 1986. The first one didn't kill, so the second one was started, then the third one.

What came before these was ofcourse securing of production facilities. In case of afghan war, the ground was held between 1979 and 1983 by afghans on their own, so the production facility there, the afghans, were secured. Then when the massive help came after 1983, these production facilities were used to produce local soldiers in large number to be used in the blow.

In case of oil flood. Far before the 1980s, the infrastructure of production was developed during 1960s and 1970s. Huge oil deposits were found. Skills learned. Wells dug. Refineries built. Then when the signal came. The production facilities produced oil in huge quantity to give the blow.

In case of arms race, america has already got the infrastructure, the basic technology, the factories, the roads, the engineers already in place and in abundance. Then when signal came, all of these were put in use to make the blow.

In case of nazi invasion of soviet union, there was also a three-prong attack. This time the attack was all in term of actual war. Nazis invaded soviet union at three places in parallel. Why were the nazis defeated? There were other reasons too, but one reason is, none of the three attacks could have killed the soviet union on its own. Thats the point. Each of your multiple blows must be able to get success for you on its own. The right strategy for nazis was to invade ukraine, to get control of both farms and mines. Then the soviets would never be able to get enough food and raw-materials at first place to produce enough to support the war, even if they were able to secure the production facilities. Actually without enough raw-materials, weapons and ammunition and even soldiers couldn't be mustered in enough number to even secure the production facilities.

This gives us an important lesson. Before the securing of production facilities came, there is another thing, it is availability of raw-materials. Without raw-materials you are never going to produce enough security stuff to secure your production facilities. Without production facilities secured you are never going to produce enough materials to have a massive blow on enemy. Without massive blow its very hard to win over the enemy.

It may happen that you have already produced enough materials, that is converted raw-materials to materials in enough number that you do not care about the availability of materials. You not even care about security of production facilities. The problem is, in war time its very hard to guard and defend the stockpile of materials. A large quantity of them is bound to get destroyed. Also the war may got extended beyond your planning in which you can run short of materials. Also some of your units may defect taking away with them some of the stockpiles.

When you are studying something, the words and diagrams in books is raw material. Also words and actions of teachers is also raw material. The learning process is conversion of these raw materials into knowledge. Knowledge is a set of rules. Some of these rules are about what a thing can be and what a thing cannot be. Some of these rules are about dependencies between entities, such as, if you do such and such action, then such and such outcome will produce. Knowledge is nothing but rules. Knowledge is the material, the finished good. Once you have knowledge, all you have to do is go apply that in your field. Its like using materials in a war.

Population cannot increase without surplus of food. Huge efforts, to the level of fatal blows to enemy, usually cannot be made without abundance of materials.

At the time of mongol invasion of central asia, the khwarzam empire collapsed pretty soon. Mongols raided and martyred all the population, including women and children, thereby killing production facilities of people. Ofcourse factories were also destroyed, thereby killing production facilities of materials. Then when the only surviving son of khwarzam shah, Jalal uddin tried to stop mongols, he faced huge problems. With the empire gone, there was no way to produce materials. All he could do was ask for help from remaining muslim countries. He did a great job on that and was able to gather army again and again and fight with mongols repeatedly but was unsuccessful. One reason of this failure is, while Jalal uddin couldn't recover losses from wars, mongols could. The mongolia was never invaded by muslims and was producing new mongols in huge numbers, so mongol losses were easily recovered. Given the low-tech situation of that time, destruction of factories was not a huge problem because similar factories could be set up pretty easily. Also since world still had abundance of raw-materials as most of the mines were never even discovered at that time, the materials were also not a problem. The problem was lack of people. With mongols martyring everybody on their way, the production facilities of khwarzam empire was destroyed beyond recovery during the period of war.

Sometimes it work to have one single blow, i.e. do not have other blows waiting in pipeline or already working. For example the conquest of caesar and alexander. Alexander took countries one by one, first egypt, then persia, then afghanistan etc. Caesar first took the goth, then some other parts of europe, then egypt. None of these two used parallel blows. If we look close we can find that victories of these two generals depended on these generals themselves. It was not a systematic kind of thing we see in world wars and fall of soviet union etc. For example if caesar had died in one of the wars in goth, the other roman generals of the time couldn't have continue the series of success. Same goes in case of alexander. Therefore we should take these two cases as exceptions that prove the rule.

How To Convince People

The key is trust.

People are convinced from those whom they trust. You may have sound logical reasoning, evidences and witnesses but still people would not listen to you, if they listen they will not be convinced. Your arguments would not have the desired effect.

It is because people take shortcut. Nobody want to have the trouble of checking your evidences, evaluation of your reasoning, interrogation of your witnesses. People just see a superficial, overview kind of look that you have something to backup your claims. Other than that it all depends on whether or not people trust you. If they trust you, they still want to be sure that you have something to support what you are saying, but nobody is going to actually check those things.

This is why its very hard to convert a person to islam on basis of logical reasoning. People do not trust their own judgements to the level that they take decisions on basis of them. What people do trust is other people.

So, how can you gain trust?

The person have to know you for sometime. Trust is not built overnight, it takes time. How much time? It depends. In general, its about a year. Once you have gone through different kind of normal situations with a person and have spent time with that person in all seasons, you start trusting that person. In some special situations, trust may be built very fast, sometimes even in minutes. For example, if you are traveling with a person then a day is enough. In extreme situations, when life is threatened, or some major decision is being made, such as a critical investment, or marriage, or some other big thing, then a few minutes are enough.

What people see in you during this time is first of all your integrity. The integrity is in two regards: first is how honest you are, how much you stick to the right thing when a strong temptation is made, also how much control you have on your anger. In short, how much control you have on your emotions. In other words fairness, rightness, honesty. The second thing they search in you is generosity, forgiveness i.e. beyond fairness. Fairness is when you take what is yours and all of it. Generosity is when you leave something that is yours to others. Control on your anger when a junior (a kid, wife, sub-ordinate etc) made a mistake or said a silly thing. Not taking revenge when you can i.e. have both power and right.

The second thing they look in you is your skills. It includes both retaining of knowledge and application of knowledge. You have to be a master of the subject. People trust doctors in matter of life because they know that doctors have the desired skills. You have to have both integrity and skills. A university degree with some years of experience is enough.

The third and last thing they look in you is positiveness. You must have constructive mentality. You should be working for everybody's good. This is why people generally don't like people who want to take revenge, because revenge means destruction.

Thats it. Three things: integrity, skills and positive-attitude.

Never, Ever Give Up

Never, ever give up.

There is no guarantee of success, but giving-up is guarantee of failure.

There is only as much for humans as they effort for. (Quran).

You may have so many failures, slowed down so much or caught in a loop that the destination seems unattainable. Still, you cannot justify giving-up. Stop worrying too much about mistakes, just avoid repeating them. Sooner or later, a time has to come where you exhaust the mistake-space, now since you cannot make any more mistakes, and you are not repeating old ones, success is guaranteed.

You may have already suffered from so many lives, time or material losses that the endeavor is indeed no longer profitable. You must still complete the task, even at further loss. Its because a half-completed task is more dangerous than failure. During your efforts you had to spill yourself along the path and create a mess of environment. Now if you give-up in between, ghosts of failure would keep haunting you while you try to re-gather or clean-up. These ghosts are in form of gorilla attacks from your enemies, your lack of confidence in yourself is one of those. These ghosts go away when task is completed, no matter you win or loose. Then only you can re-gather and clean-up in peace. Its because even at failure, as long as task is completed, you have confidence that you did complete the task, at a higher-than-desire cost-benefit-ratio but still less than an infinite cost-benefit-ratio.

The very fact that you tried till the end, create a reputation about you. Next time your enemies would think twice. Also you are more likely to get help from yet unknown friends.

Even at failure, you do learn important lessons. Once you know the way, you can always come back and do the thing over and over again till reach proximity-to-perfection.

You never know how close your enemy is to breakup, may be if you drag for a little long it is the first one to give-up.

Failures are must. We learn from failures, we do not learn from success. Any trouble that do not kill you, makes you stronger.

Do not care about people who make fun of you. Losers make fun of others. There are a lot of jealous people around you who want to pull your leg. They are afraid of not only your success but also of your steadfastness. They are afraid of these because they do not have these.

You not have to win the race. Winning is never the point in race, its the effort, the harding-up, the lessons.

Once you get over the fear of failure, you will try to indulge yourself in more activities. Soon you get so much practice of failures that you smell them at distance and change tactic before suffering. You also get power of avoiding too much pride of your successes because you know that that one success come after how many failures.

The left-overs of your failed projects: the tools you acquired, the skills you learned, the flexibility in yourself that you achieved, the money you saved, the alliances you made etc are going to pile-up. In your later projects, you can use these assets directly so you not have to start from zero.

When you do succeed, be quick to invest some of the bounty for further projects.

Like a star exists only as long as it keep its internal engine burning, and collapse after that, your struggles if not expand you atleast stop or slow down your contraction. It keeps your enemies at bay.

You have to continue running to a certain level, just to stay at place.