Sadhguru touches on a concept foreign and misunderstood in the West, the concept of “joy”. Pleasantness or “sweetness” of life is a strange concept to the rigorous, practical mind of the Western-European societies. Sadhguru is a deep thinker and a master story-teller.
What is Samadhi ?
“A mirror simply reflects everything. Nothing sticks to it; no residue is left upon it, and it never makes any judgement about what it reflects. It does not discriminate between pleasant and unpleasant, beautiful and ugly. When your mind becomes like this, you are in a state of samadhi.”
Karma, by sadhguru
“If you function unconsciously, your karma rules you absolutely. “
If you are willing to be absolutely conscious, the past has no impact on you. On this blog, I advanced the concept there is no such thing as time (and got 25,000 haters in 2019 for saying it).
Sadhguru says that, aside from bathing and showers, simply standing in the wind can be effective as a cleansing process. Sadhguru gives you a simple “do it when waking up” movement to make sure you’re fully awake and alive; for obvious reasons I won’t describe it here- we do want you to buy his book and read it.
The key takeaway from the book, the tl;dr also found in his talks and interviews is to perform each action with total involvement and intensity: absolute involvement: no tinkering, no half-way jobs. Not bothered by the result. That’s your release from karma.
“Be equally involved with everything without any distinction.”
Karma, A yogi’s journey
I will tip my hat to this old Indian sage, and urge you to get his books, listen to his talks and discover your truth.
Until next time,
Your Man,
Max Cantor
In this book you learn language patterns and covert hypnosis.
Quick rules for field operators
“Drive emotion using fear, regret, sex, fulfillment and social acceptance.”
Always mimic breathing speed first.
Accidental body contact causes immediate, short-lived insecurity in just about everyone.”
The Ellipsis Manual
Deprogram society’s thoughts
“There’s a part of everyone, I guess, that just knows how to let go and enjoy.”
the ellipsis manual
Environmental shifts
“Changing your tie in the bathroom. Correcting a person you’ve just met on your name. Shifting which hand you eat with midway though a meal…Changing types of pens or notebooks in a meeting.
the ellipsis manual
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The book is written with the operative and subject instructions and has rich scenarios with Ericksonian hypnosis flavors and not coincidentally, is the Number 1 bestseller book on Amazon in the Hypnotherapy category in 2021.
“The text was written in either a code that has not yet been cracked or a natural language and cipher that haven’t yet been identified. Its numerous illustrations of plants, astrological signs and women in thermal baths might point to its meaning—but for the fact that none of the plant species has so far been identified and the astrological signs correspond to none that we know. The women seem to be engaging in a sort of therapy common to many parts of Europe in the 15th century, but where they are precisely, and why they are bathing together in vast waterworks connected by strange tubes and ducts, is anyone’s guess.+
Justin E.H. Smith, Wall Street Journal, Sept. 25, 2021
“For awhile, scholars suspected that Voynich created the manuscript himself as a hoax. The book dealer’s larger-than-life biography, which included a stint in a Russian prison and a trek across the Mongolian desert, seemed to lend credence to such theories”
WSJ
The manuscript is currently in the possession of Yale University’s Beinecke Library.
“Recent scholarship has generally disputed the Friedmans’ findings [that it was an artificial rather than a natural language], suggesting that the manuscript’s ‘word entropy’ indicates a natural language written in cipher.”
WSJ
Last year, however, German Egyptologist Rainer Hannig from the Roemer -und Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim, believes “he has cracked the code to translating the work, and found the manuscript’s language to be based on Hebrew.” –The Art Newspaper, June 18, 2020.
Scholars, cryptographers, physicists, and computer scientists can’t figure it out, or they think they do until they don’t….
Seems that we have a problem of communication with folks from 500 years ago…
More to come…
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BigThink, citing The Journal of Research in Personality
The biggest psychopath, however, is the Snake in a Suit C-Suite
Yes, we have a post on that since 2017. We’ve seen them all, Silicon Valley-types, Wall Street-types and CEO-types.
They put the New Mexico prison inmates to shame.
The study, “Quantifying the psychopathic stare: Automated assessment of head motion is related to antisocial traits in forensic interviews“, was authored by Aparna R. Gullapalli, Nathaniel E. Anderson, Rohit Yerramsetty, Carla L. Harenski, and Kent A. Kiehl
Other men’s blogs have fallen by the wayside: RIP Bold and Determined (2010-2020), WallStreetPlayboys (2012-2021) we are still here. The bosses have castigated us, Facebook has severely restricted us (2021), Twitter has suspended us (in Nov. 2020) but we’re still here 8 years and counting.
Fighting for the rebel. The outcast. The underdog.
Until next time,
Your man,
Max Cantor
- If you are/were at a large or mid-sized organization (middle range businesses are those that have 250-500 employees) start looking at small sized businesses and startups.
2. Participate in conferences, developers forums, seminars and strategy forums. The more involved you are in your profession and the more you know about verticals the better. Speak to and meet your peers and avantgarde leaders.
3. Whatever your last employer, your best chances are to get hired by a competitor. This doesn’t change regardless of your industry and profession.
4. If you haven’t bought the Book of the Underdog yet, buy it. It is the best, life changing book on personal and professional development of the last decade. Now, 3 years later and into a new decade, the book still holds as the gold standard.
5. Pivot if you have to. Read the 15 Invalubale Laws of Growth by John C. Maxwell and The Big Pivot: Radically Practical Strategies for a Hotter, Scarcer, and More Open World by Andrew S. Winston.
Relationships
All amorous relationships in your life need to be dynamic. We have numerous posts here on relationships from the male perspective: do a search for 2019 and 2020 and you’ll be floored with relationship advice. We don’t follow the mainstream advice on “working in relationships” because once a relationship needs “work” (other than minor corrections) I believe the relationship should be curtailed. Things to bear in mind:
-People naturally grow apart.
-Monogamy is a myth and all the happy couples that I know have or have had, multiple lovers.
-All relationships end in breakups, hopefully the breakup is gracious and well-choreographed, eg. you have a prenup and a postnup.
-The way you got into that relationship the same way you will split up.
-I don’t recommend marriage for men. If you get married you need to clearly spell out your economic arrangement with the woman. No ambiguity. (The honeymoon phase usually ends in 6 months).
-If you’ve made the mistake of getting married and have kids, you need to obtain 50/50 custody. That is for the kids since they need both a father and a mother in their lives.
Bloomberg news yesterday wrote a piece on the study called Hedge Fund Hold’Em.
” Academics Yan Lu, Sandra Mortal and Sugata Ray try to answer the question in a new paper titled “Hedge Fund Hold’em.” This is part of an emerging academic interest in correlating recreational activity to business and investing success.”
” The headline result of the latest paper is that hedge fund managers who have won poker tournaments have more alpha, representing an additional 4.2 percentage points in returns per year versus 2.8 percentage points for other managers, through a combination of higher average returns and lower average risk. ” –Bloomberg
Yes, they accounted for unrelated causes and conditions.
I briefly touched on poker’s (and other skills) effect on your ability to lead in the Book of the Underdog.
Make sure you’ve read it.
I’m giving you this Christmas a Chapter from the Book of The Underdog, all free for your reading pleasure (the book consists of 30 chapters). At the same time, I lowered the price of the print book to $11.99. It’s all yours, so grab it today (I’ll end the special pricing in one week !) If you use the code GIFTBOOK18 on Amazon.com, now through Dec. 21, 2018 you get $5 OFF $20 or more of paperback books shipped and sold by Amazon !
But that’s not all.
I want you to go through this list of 10 Books that your Boss doesn’t want you to read put together by Geoffrey James, Sales Machine writer at Inc.com. The books listed are dated, but they are still very good. Good material is valuable, it doesn’t matter if it came out in 2001 or whatever ! I have those books. You should, too. (Thank, you, Geoffrey) The links to the books are inside Geoffrey’s article.
G. James’ 10 Books Your BOSS DOESN’T WANT YOU to Read
21 Dirty Tricks at Work: How to Beat the Game of Office Politics by Mike Phipps
The Peter Principle by Laurence J. Peter
How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff
Crazy Bosses by Stanley Bing
Cubicle Warfare: 101 Office Traps and Pranks by John Austin
Poorly Made in China: An Insider’s Account of the China Production Game by Paul Midler
The Good Old Days: They Were Terrible! by Otto Bettmann
Ask the Headhunter: Reinventing the Interview to Win the Job by Nick A. Corcodilos
The Gnostic Gospels edited by Willis Barnstone
The Dilbert Principle by Scott Adams
The Book of The Underdog by Max Cantor: Chapter 21: book excerpt
21. How to Shun A Competitor
Suppose you’re competing against an individual of extreme ability who’s laden with awards; you’re not even close.
- Paint them as freaky or weird. Use nicknames. Nicknames work because they leave a lasting impression in people’s mind. If this guy is an Olympian in rowing or swimming with a massive frame, you can start calling him Manatee. Of course, the relationship is not direct or precise, but manatee -the water mammal- suggests lazy, and overweight. Manatees are also known as sea cows. Some of the best nicknames you get from real life behavior. If he is a martial artist, you could name him Sparrow. If she is a woman who is a runner you could call her Bops or Shuttle. Two-words pairs always work: Dumb-Dumb, Clam-Clam, Beem-Beem.
- These are not complimenting: “Don’t fall over backwards”, “Don’t go to the hardware store for milk”, “Did you get a moon burn?” If you use those on people, you’re subtly insulting. Use them on the competition.
- Hierarchies exist only in people’s minds. Here’s a question I was asked:
“What do I do if my coworker is getting all the accolades, all the attention. I know that he/she is not that good. (seriously?) He is popular, he is first at all [the company’s] presentations, outings, sponsorships and awards. Please help!”
I get it that someone presumably is assuming all the glory while voted low on merit. Salespeople are judged based on their numbers, researchers on their academic paper peer-recognition rankings, tech industry folks (software) are evaluated on functionability (System Integration Testing (SIT) & User Acceptance Testing (UAT), user growth, user engagement. Now you’ve got a Superman outranking you. No matter how good he is, this person will have an Achilles heel. In: (Carleson), J. C. Carleson says we should dissect our performance down to the micro-expression. The same thing you must to your competitor.
Give him a lot of test-and-try remarks and see which ones he reacts to. Perhaps you find the relationship with his significant other is on squeaky wheels. Employ a “human vulnerability model”: Does it appear he has relationship qualms? Is his girlfriend/wife not firing on all cylinders? In the business of hedge funds, we see managers who perform poorly and underperform the market at around the same time they get divorced. That is not a coincidence. Performance is not totally dependent on markets and skill. Does your Superman coworker have any infidelity, or marital discord going at home? Even the best -the hedge funders- get off-course. You can go as far as telling your own false stories, stories with an inkling of semblance with what’s going on in Superman’s life. Chances are your sob stories will resonate with Superman. Plant the seeds of suspicion. Co-opt your target with a false story with some common roots from his own life.
Example: He is married. His wife and your telltale wife are of the same generation. Maybe they’re both artists. Then you say: you know what happened with my friend’s wife? He found her in bed with his tennis coach. You’ve opened up and shown your vulnerability to him. He’ll think long and hard about his wife if only because his wife has the same age and occupation as the telltale in your story. The human brain works by association. The mind is a computer searching for patterns. Work those patterns. Your boss may be evil, but he is still susceptible to patterns.Shun these badgers if they are your direct competitors. Make them fit into your world instead of them trying to fit you into their superlative world of Spartans.
Copyrighted work © 2018 By Max Cantor reprinted with permission.
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It is heavily researched and documented, with tons of articles and research papers. Six pages of Bibliography.
Above everything, this is a book of power. It is my gift to the Underdogs of the world.
Only the Fist Chapter talks about the job market, which is what you see on the 10-page Amazon free preview. The best stuff is the rest of it.
Powerful stuff you WILL NOT FIND ANYWHERE ELSE:
How to turn fear into anger
Why fear IS NOT AN EMOTION
I discuss what psychopaths are according to science. Then I show you how to play the game. What you need to overcome your boss. What bosses are really made of. How to engage with your boss. This is a book about bosses and how to become the boss.
When I started last year, I was thinking of writing the “How to destroy your Boss” book. Then I realized such title would not be palatable. I also thought about “The Bible of the Underdog” but why link it to religion. There could be people out there who don’t believe in a 2000-year old book. But we all believe in Machiavelli. (CEOs and politicians, we know what you’re made of). So I wrote the Book of the Underdog.
I’ve had some wonderful people who received advanced copies review the book. Look at what they said. Judge for yourself.
Quote of the Day:
“A man is never too weak or too ill to fight
If the cause he is standing for is greater than his own.” -Oenomaues, Spartacus Starz series
The book is written for the Internet 2.0 age and addresses empowering you in the digital times.
Yes I know I write for alpha males but the book is not exclusively for them: women can make use of it just as much. Hell, if women are better and smarter, let them win. I’m for the winner. That’s what gets me up in the morning.
The Book of the Underdog is dedicated to -you guessed it –Spartacus, the Thracian slave gladiator who I consider the world’s first and foremost Underdog. That’s who I am. This is my model. The warrior model.
- This is the book you need.
- This is the book you should HIDE from your boss. Never share it with him or her. It’s your study. Your coming up. Your design. Your personal power. Not his.
- This is the book Donald Trump (or the power cabal) will buy for his Sons (if he thought there were good real estate tips in it), then hide it from them and pretend he doesn’t know what they’re talking about.
- This is the book that will sell like hot pancakes next month at Disrupt SF Conference when I get there.
- This is the book that puts power into your hands.
- The book every one will be talking about.
Step 1. Buy it
Step 2. Read it. Underline, take your notes, add-notes, draw your diagrams.
Step 3. Review it on Amazon. I appreciate your reviews.
We’ll be talking about The Book of the Underdog more in the coming weeks.
Important note: The print edition is coming in a few days. Please be patient
P.S. Hey, there. It’s me. Remember what I told you ? Do NOT SHARE this Book with your Boss !
P.P.S. No matter what people say, Canada is our friend and neighbor. My Canadian champs can buy their book below: