- The Essence of Thick Face, Black Heart
- Power to ruthlessly achieve your goals
- Must have a proper inward state for self-help books to be effective
- thick face shields you from criticism and does not accept limitations others place on you
- As long as you are confident people are reassured
- You know your own self-worth
- don’t need the approval of others
- Black heart is the ability to take without regard
- not about what makes us feel good but what it takes to become great
- Preparation for Thick Face, Black Heart: Eleven Principles of Unlearning
- A real master doesn’t let anything get in his way
- Don’t give things without being clear on return conditions
- Understand the reason for your behavior e.g. are you hiding weakness behind a guise of virtue
- Are you willing to look like a pig or endure humiliation
- Question existing standards
- Are you pursuing your own interests or trying to get others’ approval?
- Need to be willing to get off the familiar and fail
- You won’t understand but everything is perfect
- Virtue is internal, no need to show off. When it’s there no sense of arrogance, righteousness, or superiority
- Understand the fear in your life and how it is controlling your actions
- focus on unity and what’s good for all
- Everyone wants to avoid pain
- Need to be willing to break with social convention
- Dharma: The Wish-Fulfilling Tree
- Understanding what must be done in any given situation
- Must be relentless in doing the right thing
- All hard work will pay off sometimes in unexpected ways
- Darma and Destiny
- Even if you feel stuck do you work with dedication. There is a reason for it
- It’s more for yourself. It makes you feel good and builds you up
- Life cannot withhold what is rightfully yours
- need patience (greatest virtue)
- Do everything you can and then relax and accept the outcome
- You are equipped to fulfill your highest potential but need to expend energy to make it happen
- need to discriminate whether to continue or abandon Never let go of the fight and tune out criticism of others
- with self-determination and commitment, no one can stop you
- Need to be willing to discover your true purpose
- Lack of meaning is often not about what’s wrong with what they’re doing but how it fits into the bigger picture
- If you are at a company your duty is to support and do your best
- Present any constructive suggestions
- Leave if you find it unacceptable
- When you complain, it’s a form of victimizing yourself
- Without support, will be difficult to have extraordinary success
- Winning through Negative Thinking
- The world is inconsistent
- You can succeed as you are
- We all die, do your best with the time we have
- no rules to success, positive and negative people succeed
- If you are negative, figure out how to use it
- Use others’ negativity to fuel you
- We can’t always keep up with things so leave room to fail
- Need some criticism to improve yourself but not so much you are scared to share
- Sometimes procrastination is a virtue, lets things bake or work themselves out
- Sometimes you need to break the rule
- Everyone has some level of insecurity (except a fool) the universe if so vast
- Judgment of negativity is really related to others’ opinions
- Be detached and indifferent. Embrace your uniqueness
- Spend your time working toward your dreams
- Never let go of the flame of hope
- The Magical Power of Endurance
- If you are to accomplish something great, the preparation must be great
- Most are focused on short journeys
- They will criticize and ridicule
- People want quick wins
- We can only be judged on death
- Need to have the strength to endure
- Greatness is being able to endure the unendurable
- It’s easy when things are going well
- The only true way to be happy is by confronting challenges and overcoming them
- There is opportunity in crisis but one must calmly endure and not be blinded by emotions
- Sometimes need to stop struggling and go with the flow
- Work through grief but don’t wallow in misery, pick yourself up and start again
- Don’t expose your current crisis, people can’t help and want to escape their own helplessness
- Only let them know how it benefits you
- We’re trapped by our own sense of who we are
- Live life like it was someone else’s. Be cool and detached.
- We’re often better at solving other people’s problems than our own.
- You can fulfill your objectives if you can conquer yourself
- Spirit of endurance is one of the most powerful concepts
- The Mystery of Money
- You must be willing to fight for money
- Need to convince others of your value
- First, need to convince yourself
- Do you secretly enjoy the lifestyle of the poor?
- Are you unconsciously sabotaging yourself?
- If you try to squeeze too much out of it, you can lose it all
- If you were to lose it all, do you have the confidence in your abilities to regain it all?
- Path to wealth is not about chasing money but developing your own intrinsic talents
- Don’t let your work rob you of your enthusiasm and creative brilliance
- Discovering your niche is part of our conquest of life
- How you do anything is how you do everything
- Set elevated goals, weak dreams inspire weak effort
- Set your sights high, most people compete at the bottom
- Don’t be a beggar, you can fulfill your desires through your God-given abilities
- The difference between a great artist and a competent artist is not technical ability but rather in the expression of soul
- Act as if you’ve already achieved success
- Outer success follows internal reality
- Be indifferent about money. Use it but don’t let it take over your whole life.
- Don’t demand immediate results
- Prosperity is connected with our ability to bring forth our maker’s qualities
- Deception without Deceit
- Not openly talked about in the West but recognized and glorified in the East
- to do you want may first need to get to some position which may require deception
- If you want people to work with you, create attractive bait, and make them want something, can be an illusion
- Human nature is about self-preservation, utility, mutual benefit
- Unconditional support is the exception in normal relationships
- When there is mutual benefit there is cooperation
- A nobody may be somebody tomorrow, always lend a hand to capable individuals
- The key to being important is being useful not trying to impress others
- Sixteen Noble Attributes of Work
- Entrepreneurs provide for themselves and others
- If something is stirring strong emotions, need to take a good look at yourself
- Doing the work helps you learn
- The world doesn’t need you, you need the world
- Find work that suits you, if you can’t find it, jump into entrepreneurship
- All the knowledge in the world will be worth nothing if you don’t do anything with it
- Always be working towards something
- embrace farmer’s value. Farmers cannot procrastinate, if they do, they die
- When performing work be in tune with your inner self, may need to cultivate
- Intuition draws on a lot of previous experience and is used in many decisions ultimately
- Figure out the schedule that works for you. Everyone is different
- Don’t aim too low, you will perform poorly on a task that’s below your abilities
- Focus on the goal, not the prize
- if you practice motivation blindly, you can land at a place you don’t belong
- The Advantage of Playing the Fool
- There is always someone stronger and more ruthless
- need to know when to fight and submit
- need to understand if the fight is even worth it
- Do not cross people who can hurt you
- Sometimes playing the fool opens the door to some opportunity
- Thriving among the Cunning and Ruthless
- Acknowledge the brutality of the world
- If you feel like you’re getting screwed, you probably are
- People will try to intimidate you and make you stand down
- No one will stand up for your interests
- People tend to target and take advantage of the weak
- Importance of striving for the best deal, don’t get taken advantage of
- Fight for your interests in the small things
- Be strong minded
- It is not about explicit action but the state of mind that we transmit to the world. You must be able to beat a man in combat by the use of your eyes.
- Need to exercise aggression cautiously
- If you overexaggerate your strength, you will be targeted
- If you took all the precautions, then don’t need to rely on trust
- Don’t make yourself too vulnerable, never know who will use it against you
- Watch out for trolls, doing it due to their own inferiority, don’t need to accept it
- Some people feel resentful about their own inferiority and don’t need to win over them all
- Can’t appeal to everyone, focus on people receptive to your message
- Not everyone is noble, need to learn how to protect yourself
- Encountering the cunning and ruthless may allow us to bring forth extraordinary abilities e.g. “success is the sweetest revenge”
- Sometimes, you’ll need to decide if you want to play with sharks. They can beat you in unexpected ways.
- If everyone is cunning and greedy, honest hard work can stand out.
- Focus on being healthy
- To be tough with others, you must learn how to be tough with yourself
- Acquiring the Killer Instinct
- to succeed you need the killer instinct
- must be willing to suffer defeat, go back and fulfill your ambition regardless of cost
- if your ambition is to become the emperor of china, must be willing to kill or be killed
- in order to keep discipline must set an example if someone defies
- people lie and cheat. wealth gives them a halo effect
- for entreprenurs, raissing money can be important, just focus on raising the money
- it’s not about how you feel just focus on the objective
- don’t let people screw you, show you’re willing to take revenge
- if you’re too generous, people will feel entitled to it, be cruel to be kind
- how to acquire: tap into it like when flipping a pancake, perfect strength, control and detachment. Overcome innter timidity
- there is a link between killer instinct and detached strength
- Thick Face, Black Heart Leadership
- power and responsibility cannot be separated
- don’t become arrogant
- need to reward those that follow you
- Thick Within, Black Within
- you already posess thick face black heart, just need to rediscover it
- life is painful whether you choose self-denial or self-expression, but only one creates movement within you
- nurture the self and ignore others’ standards. This will be painful at times.
- you will attract events and people. like attracts like
- reach within for guidance and abandon your old ways
- when you break from others’ expectations, gives peace and tranquility
- do things with intention and reason
- use detatchment, when you don’t want you get
- Challenge your limitations for thet pure joy of the challenge
- Life is not just about activity and working hard, if you focus on the wrong thing you can end up where you do not belong
- The essential reward of actioin is the joy of the action itself
- Do not fear failure, persist through glory and disgrace
- The law of nature is thet state of sattva: vigorous, active disciplined
- incorporate the ego of our creator: absolute, ultimate, gigantic
- strong sense of who we are in achieving our highest good
- Paths to Thick Face, Black Heart
- Learn to calm your mind allows you to withold the power within
- induce yourself into a tranquil state (e.g. rocking chair)
- repeat the creator’s name to stay focused
- sit and observe your breathing (5-30mins)
- there will be some form of inner music, sink into it
- may have some visions
- How a Piranha Eats the Shark
- the fox borrows the strength of the tiger
- the tiger can be anything: connections, associations, skills
- people don’t want to mess with you if you’re associated with the powerful
- don’t show too much strength, use deception
- use the stronger person until you can overtake
- remove the source of power of an adversary
- learn to retreat and live to fight another day
- learn to think outside the box and get more results from your actions
- pay attention to small details which can sabotage the whole thing
- don’t waste your time trying to explain your value to people who cannot recognize it
- focus on people that recognize it
- leap to the top, gain authority and endorsements
- opponents may seem big but they actually may not have been that bad
- transform from victim to victor
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