The Zen N! #36 - The EZ Question II
1 - Question, 2 - Meaning
The Focus of The Newsletter
This Week's Newsletter Contains,
1. The EZ Question II: Looking At The Top
2. On Meaning and Understanding II: A quote from Gurdjieff on Understanding.
1 The EZ Question II
"Somebody asked Charlie Munger about making money. He reinterpreted that and he said what the questioner is actually asking is,
How Do I Get Rich Like You but Faster,
before I end up as a really old guy?"
-How to Get Rich - Naval - YouTube - 2:29
The EZ Question is a strategy of: looking at the top.
Why?
The Many are on a Path that is more Difficult the farther they they Go.
The Few are on a Path that becomes more Easy the Higher they Get.
With This Strategy, The Higher You Go The Easier It Gets.
Are you Where you want to be?
Are you Who you want to be?
Would you want to get to where your Inspiration is?
Do you want to take as long as it took them to get there?
Or,
Do you want to get there now?
You don't just want to get where they got,
you want to go beyond them–in a shorter amount of time.
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“We get these questions a lot from the enterprising young. It’s a very intelligent question: You look at some old guy who’s rich and you ask, 'How can I become like you, except faster?'”
Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Step by step you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts. But you build discipline by preparing for fast spurts.
Slug it out one inch at a time, day by day. At the end of the day –if you live long enough – most people get what they deserve.”
- Charlie Munger
Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Step by step you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts. But you build discipline by preparing for fast spurts.
Slug it out one inch at a time, day by day. At the end of the day –if you live long enough – most people get what they deserve.”
- Charlie Munger
How Do I Become Like You but Faster,
before I end up old?
How? With The Best of The Top of the Top
The EZ Question can give better results than even Charlie Munger can give.
This is because this strategy involves not only involves the Top of the Top,
this also involves only the best of the top,
and greater still,
the result all of those tops combined.
A Question:
How Do I Become [Smarter, Wiser, Stronger, Richer, Attractive, etcetera] Like My Inspiration but Faster?
A Refined EZ Question,
How Can I Become Greater Than My Inspiration, Faster Than They Achieved Greatness?
[So that I can have independence.]
What If A Person Doesn't Have An Inspiration?
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Your Inspiration can be someone outside of your target field.
For example, many Americans are inspired by the rapper
Curtis James Jackson III, known professionally as 50 Cent.
If you have no living inspirations, you can look to historical inspirations.
For example, Benjamin Franklin is an inspiration to many people because his book, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is easy to read and he chooses 13 virtues to strive to live by.
If you have no historical inspirations, you can look to favorite characters in movies and media. Your favorite characters have traits that you identify with and admire about yourself.
For example, many Americans are inspired by the rapper
Curtis James Jackson III, known professionally as 50 Cent.
If you have no living inspirations, you can look to historical inspirations.
For example, Benjamin Franklin is an inspiration to many people because his book, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is easy to read and he chooses 13 virtues to strive to live by.
If you have no historical inspirations, you can look to favorite characters in movies and media. Your favorite characters have traits that you identify with and admire about yourself.
Benjamin Franklin's VIrtues
2 On Meaning and Understanding II
"A person knows for certain that at different periods of his life he has understood one and the same idea,
one and the same thought,
in totally different ways.
It often seems strange to him that he could have understood so wrongly that which,
in his opinion,
he now understands rightly.
And he realizes, at the same time, that his knowledge has not changed,
and that he knew as much about the given subject before as he knows now.
What, then, has changed?
His being has changed.
And once being has changed understanding must change also." - Gurdjieff
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P.S.
Part I of The EZ Question from last week's newsletter is here:
The EZ Question: Part I.
Right now I'm working hard on building The 1-2 Solution.
Thanks for Reading and Blessings to You!
