{"id":4289,"date":"2012-01-28T04:24:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T20:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/?p=4289"},"modified":"2024-02-29T19:19:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T19:19:33","slug":"self-schooling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2012\/01\/28\/self-schooling\/","title":{"rendered":"Things To Do [2012]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is it. No more hiding, no more cowering in fear. This is the post- or the series of posts, the system and the philosophy that I have been putting together for months now, possibly even years. It&#8217;s not an original idea. (There are no original ideas.)<\/p>\n<p>All this while my blog has been a sort of external hodgepodge summary of my thoughts- not very coherent or cohesive, but something, nevertheless.<\/p>\n<p>Baby steps. I can&#8217;t make this amazing with the first step. It&#8217;s necessarily going to be messy and imperfect. But I have to start, and I can tidy it up along the way.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, I have a bunch of things I&#8217;d like to do, and I&#8217;d like to learn how to do them.<\/p>\n<p>These things include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>getting really fit,<\/li>\n<li>doing a hundred pushups,<\/li>\n<li>learning to swim,<\/li>\n<li>developing a sound understanding of global economics and financial systems,<\/li>\n<li>becoming a fitness or fashion model,<\/li>\n<li>starting and owning several businesses,<\/li>\n<li>building communities,<\/li>\n<li>building a highly successful blog (this one!) with lots of great conversations,<\/li>\n<li>reading a tonne of books and learning from them,<\/li>\n<li>becoming a great public speaker,<\/li>\n<li>writing,<\/li>\n<li>recording and selling an album,<\/li>\n<li>becoming a YouTube celebrity,<\/li>\n<li>having constant conversations on social media with people who are driven and passionate&#8230; the list goes on. I want to save the world and do everything.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I need to figure out how to do these things. I need to learn, so that I can know. Eastern philosophy echoes things like- &#8220;knowledge becomes really such only when it is assimilated in the mind of the learner and shows in his character.&#8221; Chinese philosopher Wan Yang Ming said, <strong>&#8220;To know and to act are one and the same.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t going to make very much sense yet. But this is where I track my journey. Nothing new. It&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been doing all along, only a lot more focused. I&#8217;ll add something every day. We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is it. No more hiding, no more cowering in fear. This is the post- or the series of posts, the system and the philosophy that I have been putting together for months now, possibly even years. It&#8217;s not an original idea. (There are no original ideas.) 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