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Maximum Likelihood Classification
By: Dorian Lazar
Tags: Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Maximum Likelihood, Probability, Machine Learning

What is this thing about?

The main idea of Maximum Likelihood Classification is to predict the class label y that maximizes the likelihood of our observed data x. We will consider x as being a random vector and y as being a parameter (not random) on which the distribution of x depends. At first, we need to make an assumption about the distribution of x (usually a Gaussian distribution).

Then, the learning of our data consists of the following:

We split our dataset into subsets corresponding to each label y .

. For each subset, we estimate the parameters of our assumed distribution for x using only the data inside that subset.

When making a prediction on a new data vector x:

We evaluate the PDF of our assumed distribution using our estimated parameters for each label y .

. Return the label y for which the evaluated PDF had the maximum value.

Let’s start with a simple example considering a 1-dimensional input x, and 2 classes: y = 0, y = 1.

Let’s say that after we estimated our parameters both under y = 0 and y = 1 scenarios, we get these 2 PDFs plotted above. The blue one (y = 0) has mean 𝜇=1 and standard deviation 𝜎=1; the orange plot (y = 1) has 𝜇=−2 and 𝜎=1.5. Now, if we have a new data point x = -1 and we want to predict the label y, we evaluate both PDFs: 𝑓₀(−1)≈0.05; 𝑓₁(−1)≈0.21. The biggest value is 0.21, which we got when we considered y = 1, so we predict label y = 1.

That was just a simple example, but in real-world situations, we will have more input variables that we want to use in order to make predictions. So, we need a Multivariate Gaussian distribution, which has the following PDF:

For this method to work, the covariance matrix Σ should be positive definite; i.e. it should be symmetric and all eigenvalues should be positive. The covariance matrix Σ is the matrix that contains the covariances between all pairs of components of x: Σ𝑖𝑗=𝑐𝑜𝑣(𝑥𝑖,𝑥𝑗). So, it is a symmetric matrix as 𝑐𝑜𝑣(𝑥𝑖,𝑥𝑗)=𝑐𝑜𝑣(𝑥𝑗,𝑥𝑖), and therefore all we have to check is that all eigenvalues are positive; otherwise, we will show a warning. If there are more observations than variables and the variables don’t have a high correlation between them, this condition should be met, Σ should be positive definite.

Now, let’s implement it

Using MLClassifier to predict heart disease

Image by Myriam Zilles @ Pixabay

For this task, we will use the dataset provided here. This dataset consists of a csv file which has 303 rows, each one has 13 columns that we can use for prediction and 1 label column. A short description of each field is shown in the table below:

We got 80.33% test accuracy. Although this method doesn’t give an accuracy as good as others, I still think that it is an interesting way of thinking about the problem that gives reasonable results for its simplicity.
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Tags: Facebook Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Facebookpromote, Digital Marketing Service, Socialmediapromote

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Why are Facebook ads not useful?
By: Riansyah Tuahunse
Tags: Facebook Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Facebook Ads, Social Media Strategy, Digital Marketing

This question has been asked for many people, especially those who recently run their ads on Facebook for the first time.

After trying to run their ads on Facebook with minimum budget and less knowledge about how to run ads strategically, they began to ask “ why Facebook ads not working and doesn’t really convert people”?

Well, to run ads on Facebook, you should pay attention to the market and strategy.

Market

Market / Audience

To run ads, you should know well about who your target market is. It is impossible to run ads to the people who isn’t your market and hope they will convert.

The more you know them specifically, the more you get the probability to convert them as your customer.

Message

Related to your market, if you know them you can deliver the right message to the right people. You can mention in your copy about their pain point, desire, hope and how your product/service will help to solve their problem

Strategy

Mechanism

You should know, you are not the only advertiser on Facebook. Now, almost everyone runs their ads on Facebook. That’s why is the cost is getting higher.

If you know well your market, you have to make your funnel mechanism strategically that suits your market.

Re-marketing

Facebook is a social media where people on it are to entertain themselves. So that’s why it is hard to get them converted the first time they saw your ads.

That’s why you need remarketing to make them remember that they have a problem that your product/service can help to solve it.

That’s all a brief explanation that you should pay attention to before you run your ads on Facebook. If you have additional strategies that I forgot to mention, please add it to the comment. And if you get values from this content, please share so many others can get value from this.

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Plan Your Facebook Campaign
By: Riansyah Tuahunse
Tags: Facebook Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Facebook Ads, Social Media Strategy, Digital Marketing

As an entrepreneur and business owner, you should invest your marketing in digital marketing. Since it’s cheap, countable and all the people live there. If you have run it, then good for you!. But if you haven’t, you should invest before the cost gets higher and higher. since facebook auction is more competitive.

Before you execute your campaign on Facebook, you should plan your campaign on how the campaign should run.

Testing

In this phase, you run many ads on many specific markets and many various types. You can test your copywriting, ads creatives, your market interest, and behavior, custom audiences, etc. in other words you have to run A/B testing. it’s all because you have to collect data about your market.

Learn From The Result

After running your ads for several days, you can see which one is the winner. You’ll know which ads produce more results than the others, which audiences that convert the most, which copy and creatives most engaged.

Expand Testing Of Winners

After you analyze your testing for several days and you have enough data, you can scale your winning ads. There are so many ways to scale it. You can increase your budget, expand your specific target market, adding you creatives according to the winner ads, and so many others.

These are the cycles if you want to run a Facebook ads campaign. It’s all about testing, learning, and scale.

Don’t get emotional with your campaign, if it shows that the ads don’t get any result, just turn it off!

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What is a good CTR for Facebook ads?
By: Riansyah Tuahunse
Tags: Facebook Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Facebook Ads, Social Media Strategy, Digital Marketing

I remember when I discussed with my friend, he asked me “ how higher is your ads CTR?

At that moment, I am still a newbie in Facebook ads, didn’t know much about how higher CTR is to be said to be good enough.

Well, as an advertiser, all that matters is about how higher is ROI / ROAS is. But isn’t CTR is the first gate of the customer journey which is by getting high CTR it means the content is relevant to the audiences.

At that time, I was thinking “ if I don’t know the minimum CTR on the ads I ran, how can I measure if it is good or bad? Relevant to my audiences or doesn’t? “

Thankfully, we have google!

I searched for it, then I found it. You can see the picture below!

Thanks to Facebook that released the data about average CTR. and I know every business is different.

From that moment, that average CTR becomes our KPI, especially for a copywriter and creative design.

If that number doesn’t achieve, we have to change the creative and the copywriting and run A/B testing.

If we get the minimum number, we duplicate it, scale and make the copywriting and design just as the winning ads are

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Why you should Allow Tracking on iOS despite what Apple may suggest.
By: Jody Milward
Tags: Facebook Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Privacy, Apple, iOS

Why you should Allow Tracking on iOS despite what Apple may suggest. Jody Milward Jun 17·2 min read

If you are an iPhone user, chances are you’ve updated to the latest operating system — iOS14. Then, as your Apps have updated you may have seen a little prompt that says something like

“This App would like permission to track you across their App and other websites”

And then the choice is yours….

Allow App Not to Track

OR

Allow

Perhaps in that moment you see Mel Gibson yelling “FREEDOM” and you feel giddy with power as you ‘stick it to the man’ and you tap “Allow App Not to Track🖕

And with that new sense of empowerment, you open up Airbnb and start looking for accommodation for your next dream vacation.

1 hour later, feeling completely overwhelmed at so many options but not finding the right one, you head over to Facebook to watch some funny cat videos and see what your friends from high school are doing 20 years on.

And in your newsfeed you’re getting ads for

Denture Clinics 🦷

Toddler Toys 🍼

Mobility Scooters 👵

and

Incontinence Pads 💦 💩

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AND… they have deals going…

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complimentary bottle of champers on arrival 🍾

A personally curated newsfeed based on things you ARE interested in.

While Apple and alot of publications are celebrating and promoting that you tap the “Do Not Allow Tracking” option, it does not mean you do not get ads in your Newsfeed on Facebook or any other app you may open up.

What it means is that

👉 you will still get served the same number of ads, but they are not likely to be relevant to you👈

Facebook is free to 1.88 billion daily active users.

It’s funded by Advertisers.

Even if there are ads in your newsfeed, the choice is yours whether to…

Tap and learn more

Hide the ad and say ‘show me less ads like this’

Keep on scrolling.

But at least you are getting ads that are relevant to you and providing you with a more enjoyable user experience on the platform — whatever app you use.

If Bono still hasn’t found what he’s been looking for, then it would be a good idea for him to allow tracking… 🎤 🕶

Also, did you know Apple has its own advertising platform, so is it really a matter of privacy or they want to keep the data for themselves?
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Tags: Facebook Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Website Promotion, Social Media Promotion, Social Media Manager

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Fantastic Ideas About Facebook Marketing That Anybody Can Use
By: Rohit Kumar
Tags: Facebook Marketing, Facebook Marketing Tips, Facebook Messenger, Facebook Marketing Ideas, Facebook

Everybody all around the world appears to be hooked on Facebook nowadays. You’re able to reach a lot of individuals through Facebook advertising. If you would like to learn more about Facebook Marketing, this guide will be of assistance.

It’s quite a fantasy that each company must be on Facebook. The expense of the time required to plan your campaigns, keep your webpage, communicate with buffs, and promote can develop into a significant burden on a small business owner.

Attempt to add relevancy and value to every one of your Facebook articles. In other words, your articles must benefit your readers somehow, if it is helpful or tips advice on a subject. Do not create every post an advertisement, however.

When you receive information about “the top” of something, like the very best sort of article, or the very best sort of articles, or the ideal time to the report, it’ll no more be the ideal. Why? Since your contest has read this article also and will be after it. Research your target market and determine your own “bests.”

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Why I’ve decided to do every NaNoWriMo
By: Eraes Ellis
Tags: Fiction, NaNoWriMo, Indie Author, Writing, Camp Nanowrimo

When I did my first WriMo, I didn’t even hit the half-way mark. But that was okay! Who cares! Not winning in WriMo does not equate to losing.

NaNoWriMo consistently delivers advice and down-to-earth encouragement. In April ’19, I found myself fiending for the next Pep Talk in my inbox. I needed the validation! It’s Day 27 and I’m going to give up, tell me not to give up!

I didn’t give up. I even extended my personal goal from 30k to 40k. I won 4.19Camp — I printed out my winner's certificate in black and white, filled it out and colored it with highlighters at my work desk.

I know “the point” of WriMo is to write a whole novel, but for me, it’s enough to put down just enough of a story that I will be furious if I don’t finish it. My 4.19 project is still an infant — in the two months since my Official Win, I only managed another 22k for my first draft.

Now, 7.19 Camp starts tomorrow. I’m thrilled, because it will force me away from my current story (whose climax is just around the corner — a toddler could finish this draft, so I don’t feel guilty about “not finishing” right away). I will have a new goal: 50k so that I am more prepared for 11.19 WriMo. If I can write 50k now, it will show that I have grown as a writer and that’s pretty sweet.

I hope this convinced you, but if it didn’t — I encourage you to find your own thing that works and keeps you in check!

Writing independently is exhausting and it’s easy to give up if you trick yourself into thinking you haven’t begun because you “aren’t published.”

Edit: At least try it for a year — if you’re serious about writing, you will be doing it for a long time and one whirlwind year of WriMos will be exhausting but you’re going to learn so much from it.
Tarot for The Skeptical Novelist
By: Anna-Maria Ninnas
Tags: Productivity Tools, Creative Writing, NaNoWriMo, Tarot, Writing Tips

Tarot for The Skeptical Novelist

Current mood. Rewrite-editing my second draft this NaNoFiMo April 2021.

When you’re a creative writer but not superstitious.

Tarot cards and storytelling go hand-in-hand. When explaining the art of tarot interpretation to skeptical friends, my keywords are “analysis” and “brainstorming”. Just like in literature and psychology, tarot has defined “archetypes” and “tropes” which can serve as tools for interpretation, understanding problems and working towards conclusions.

If you’re a creative novelist but identify as a “right-brain” logical thinker, the classical 72 card tarot deck could still be your new outlining tool in your writing toolkit — right next to your mindmaps, hero theory or Scrivener.

Limiting Your Thinking

If you ever created a story using only the magnets on your fridge or made up characters while people-watching, you’ve experienced your creativity thriving when put inside the proverbial box. Supposedly, creativity loves freedom of expression. Yet we’ve all just sat there in front of a blank page, paralyzed by infinite possibilities.

For nonlinear thinkers to whom coherent structure doesn’t come naturally, playing within defined “rules” helps formulate and express ourselves within those frames. As for cold hard logisticians, it’s like solving a puzzle or writing a formula!

The Variables

Unless you’re using the services of a specialized reader (shoutout to Chris Lilly for the awesome word building spreads) or willing to practice “intuition”, then you’re gonna be working with you cards open or “face up”. As in, choosing which cards work for you rather than pulling them out blindly.

You’ll want to familiarize yourself with the deck first. Not by heart! Not every professional reader can brag about their encyclopedic memory. Just enough so you don’t still think that the Death card means literal death. There are keyword summaries available for each card online. For those who are impatient to try their first formula, you could start by Googling individually ‘which cards represent betrayal’, for example.
Give Your NaNoWriMo Story the Fairest Chance at Being Finished
Tags: NaNoWriMo, Inspiration, Writing, Writing Tips, Writers Life

Give Your NaNoWriMo Story the Fairest Chance at Being Finished

Writing the first draft of a novel in 30 days might seem daunting, but it is possible. Just don’t rely on inspiration. JazzFeathers Follow Sep 12 · 2 min read

Photo by Leighann Blackwood on Unsplash

Every year, it’s the same. When I tell fellow writers that I’m about to take part in the NaNoWriMo challenge, either they reply, ‘Cool! I’m doing it too,” or “I would never force myself to write.”

Indeed, there is this concept that if you write for 30 days in a row, you must be forcing yourself to. And if you force yourself, your story will suffer. This is probably where so much scepticism about NaNoWriMo comes from.

There’s a romantic idea that a writer only writes when inspired, and only inspired writing comes from the heart and is authentic. If a writer sits every day at their desk and writes for an allotted amount of time, they must be forcing themselves to write whatever it comes.

I find this kind of thinking not only romantic but also quite naïve.

Inspiration is undoubtedly vital for storytelling, not because we need it to write, but because it gives fire to everything we write.

But — as we all know — inspiration comes at intervals, sometimes very long ones. We can’t rely on it if we want to make writing something more than an occasional hobby. In fact, the prolific writer does not write only when inspiration strikes, nor someone who forces themselves to write without inspiration. I believe that the prolific writer is the one who knows how to manage inspiration and how to use the sporadic bursts of inspiration to fuel their entire writing.

This is also how we give our NaNoWriMo project the best chance at being finished.

KEEP READING
How I Fought my Worst Enemy as a Designer
By: Hoang Nguyen
Tags: Creativity, Design, Ego, Mindset, Personal Growth

MINDSET

How I Fought my Worst Enemy as a Designer

Illustration by Kit8.net

What belongs to you, but other people use it more than you?

When I was a child, this was my most impressive riddle. The answer is quite simple: it is the “NAME” of each person. From the moment we were born, perhaps the first thing we own is our name. NAME also signals your “presence” in this world, and then the “Ego” comes to light.

It is the fact that the older we get, the more vulnerable our ego becomes. Children only need one candy to be happy, while adults are so egotistical and not easy to calm down. In particular, “Ego” is directly proportional to the ability and the results that we achieve.

Everything always has two sides, and so does the Ego:

Positive side: the ego creates pride and self-esteem, contributes to the courage to be yourself.

the ego creates pride and self-esteem, contributes to the courage to be yourself. Negative side: it creates misconception. Or more accurately, misjudging ourselves, making us feel inferior or arrogant — and then gradually skeptical of our existence.

The design industry is halfway between Logic and Emotion — it’s hard to know when to keep the “Ego” and when to give up. So do I. The more experienced I get, the higher my pride and prejudice are, leaving me in an awful situation that affects my teammates.
Letters to my emotions- A series (Ego).
By: Bhaswati Kalita
Tags: Mental Health, Emotions, Ego, Psychology, Letters

Letters to my emotions- A series (Ego).

Dear Ego,

Awareness and I planned for a quiet evening just in the time for the sunset!

I understand you’ll be joining us too.

I acknowledge your belief that you have an

important job to do,

and that you take your job very seriously.

Apparently your job is to take me back to fear, the dark place, you now call- the comfort zone

or maybe your home.

And keep doing so if you feel must.

But I will also be doing my job while I

gaze at the sun and the beautiful orange sky;

which while setting, gives me the hope

of getting a day closer to my manifestations.

And awareness will do its job

which is to stay in present and remain inspiring.

I understand the stories you tell me

are to protect me,

but often it has got nothing to do with reality.

Anxiety loves when you show up

and now I understand why you two make

such good friends!

But my dear friend Ego,

those stories come from a place of

past conditionings and presumed realities;

and that comfort zone is nothing but the danger zone.

Did I not tell you, growth occurs outside the comfort zone?

But you did quite a job

to always make me feel otherwise!

I also understand you dread it

when Change shows up

but how will you deny that

it is the only constant in the perpetual universe?

And maybe it’s time you both make amends with each other.

The grandiose sense of self of everything revolving

around you, let’s not dwell into it, please?

I recognize and respect that

you are a part of the family

and I will never exclude you from our activities.

But your suggestions will never be followed.

Dear ego, I accept you but I do not approve of your stories.

I hope gradually you find your way back

and become one of us.

~With love and firmness.
I love your article!
By: Freestone Wilson
Tags: Virus, Alone, Society, Ego, Spiritual Growth

I love your article!

I live in a senior residence where *no one* can visit their elderly relatives and friends. Thus I see this Virus under a slightly different light.

I do agree utterly with your assessment that we all need to prune our bushes! I feel the Lord gave to us all a kind of special “fertilizer”, back in the 1960s, to speed up our growth. Just look at the early hippies, the better racial treatments, alone! [you do NOT want to hear what it was like in the old pre 60s South! I live here today, in a much much better South!] So much Spiritual growth too. HOWEVER. some of us took this freedom into a whole another direction! as the India people might say, “all of this goodness all went to the lower Chakras”!: Materialism, sex = love, power, control. The human Bush is not so pretty anymore! Entire branches grew into un-beauty directions. the beautiful Bush that was God’s plan for humanity, now is distorted. Thus time to bring in the Angelic Landscapers to trim this Bush!

You are only one of the few people who sense this! To sense the very positive results. Many of the nurses and people around me are still in crisis mode, not able yet to sense what you are seeing!

There was a hippie saying back in the days of LSD. “the very worst thing that could happen when you take LSD is that you emerge from your Trip unchanged”! Same here, probably some people still will not learn and they might continue on with the same old ShXt. God will not then be mercy filled with them, perhaps. Hopefully then, our changes will “stick”!

There is yet another result too. by being Alone for so long, one can really get a feel for Who one is! To actually know your true self and not be filled with society expectations or not be so caught up in the materialistic rat race. To acquire a true self, a true Ego. After all, how can one be Saved if there is no “you” there to be saved?! if you are only a collection of other’s beliefs from your parents, your small town, your nation, your friends, Jesus cannot save you! How can you transcend your ego, the eastern religions ask. Indeed, if you have no true ego, you cannot transcend it!

Now is a very good time to find out who you really are!
The Messages That Matter
By: Shannon Lee
Tags: Higher Self, Self Help, Ego

Part 3

In part one I shared how I had finally found the answer I was looking for. I started clearing the ego and to embodying self-belief and self-love. I learned to clear the limiting beliefs holding me back and to connect directly to my true self to receive messages from higher self.

In part two, I talked about how it took me some time to establish this routine as a part of my daily life. Ego was difficult to get by. Once I did my life flourished in ways that I could only dream about previously.

This daily routine has given me The Messages That Matter.

These messages guide me with love, truth and all the knowledge available in the universe.

I have been getting messages daily for roughly five years. I saved all my journals and reading back through them; I decided to share. These messages have changed my life for the better, and I hope they help you also.

I won’t be going in any particular order instead, I will pick them as they feel right.

Join me on my journey and of course I would love to hear your messages.
The Messages That Matter
By: Shannon Lee
Tags: Higher Self Messages, Higher Self, Self Help, Ego

Part 1

All day, every day we are inundated with messages that don’t matter. The ego is non stop with the language of defeat like: you can’t do that, you always give up. Even people who seem to have a healthy ego and are accomplishing great goals are most likely sacrificing other very essential elements of their lives for this so-called success.

The ego and its false messages are the cause of all the chaos we see around us. Violence, drug use, greed, and neglect of the planet can all be traced back to people living with the overwhelm the ego creates.

I’ve lived for many years totally at the mercy of ego. I didn’t even know what it was, let alone what it was creating in my life. I knew I was miserable, not able to reach the goals set for myself. I had chronic anxiety, and I would lash out at anyone who pushed on one of my ego buttons.

It’s not a fun way to live but deep inside of me; I knew there was a better way. I spent years looking for the answer. I tried everything, including energy healing, meditation, religion, and self-help book after self-help book. They all helped a little in their own way, but I wasn’t getting the relief I knew was out there, so I kept looking.

About five years ago I was introduced to ego clearing, and a whole new path opened up for me.

There have been twists and turns along the way, however, learning to clear the ego has shown me all the beauty in my life that I was unable to see while ego was in command.

Now, true happiness is not something I am always chasing. That’s because my eyes are open to what is right in front of me in the present moment. No matter where I am, I can love myself right now, unconditionally.

After learning to clear the ego, I was taught to connect directly to Higher Self to receive the messages to guide me on my path. These are the Messages That Matter.

By sharing my messages it is my greatest wish to inspire people to get on their path, guided by their higher-self and the messages that matter most to them!

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The Messages That Matter
By: Shannon Lee
Tags: Higher Self, Self Help, Ego

Part 2

After years and years of searching, I had finally found a method that worked! It was unbelievably life changing. I could do a simple technique of clearing the ego and bringing in helpful energies, and I instantly felt better! I am not saying it to be dramatic, it was absolutely true. I had found a miracle!

I would love to write a beautiful short story about how my life was perfect from that day on, but that would not be the truth.

If it was possible to go back in time I would have called upon ego clearing every single time it was needed. Unfortunately, I did not. I would be going about my day, and ego would get triggered by whatever, and I was faced with a choice, clear the ego and move on or wallow in it.

More times than not I choose to wallow in it. It is hard to explain why knowing what I know now, I felt a million times better when I cleared the ego, so why didn’t I?

The only answer I have is I was very used to living with ego and believing it was me. It took a good amount of time clearing the ego and the limiting beliefs I had built up to see everything the ego said was false.

Once I understood that I was able to set a time each day where I would wake up, clear the ego and the limiting beliefs and ask for the messages to guide my day.

The advice I would give my past self and you, the reader is jump right in there. Know that what the ego says is not true. You can clear no matter what is going on in your life! You can! It may feel impossible, but I assure you it can be done. Take the time, call on your higher self and all the self-love you can muster and do it!

When you make this commitment to yourself, you will start to make giant leaps forward on your path.

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17/06/2019
By: David Cap
Tags: Humility, Notes, Ego, Gratitude

3 things that you are grateful for:

- For family and friends

- For this pale blue dot

- For the ability to observe and wonder

1 thing that you can do better:

- Rest

Notes:

You deserve and get only what you do with what was given to you.

Your position in this vastness space should give you more humility

Your problems and goals pales in comparison whit what is

Your problems and goals pales in comparison with what is

If you want to hurt your brain just look up and understand that that will go on forever, with and without you.

Less ego, more growth.

Beautiful words by Carl Sagan:

Having an accountability partner (next chapter Atomic Habits):

The inversion of the 4th Law of Behavior Change is make it unsatisfying.

We are less likely to repeat a bad habit if it is painful or unsatisfying.

An accountability partner can create an immediate cost to inaction. We care deeply about what others think of us, and we do not want others to have a lesser opinion of us.

A habit contract can be used to add a social cost to any behavior. It makes the costs of violating your promises public and painful.

Knowing that someone else is watching you can be a powerful motivator.

Sketch:
Dummy’s guide to Self-Sabotage and ruining Relationships?
By: Navneet Shrivastava
Tags: Happiness, Acceptance, Ego, Relationships, Experience

So, if you wondering how could you become the new King of self-sabotaging and ruining relationships, just make sure you may STOP reading here:

#1 — My coach (Lt. Sanjiv Sadana) advised me to accept things with complete willingness. While I struggled to understand ‘how could I possibly accept something or someone I don’t agree to?!’, Sanjiv directed me to ‘find your own ways’ and that no one else can find answer for you but yourself.



With no prescription or help I struggled to find ‘my own ways’ to understand why I am not able to accept things with complete willingness. I kept talking to people, gurus and kept reading other’s journey. One book I found very helpful (and fun) was Stumbling-Into-Infinity-by-Michael-Fischman.

Over the course I found that between what I can change and what I can accept- there are things I could neither accept nor change (like Sagar’s nasty habit I could neither accept nor change). And accumulation of such things only made me more acidic and fooling me into thinking ‘I have resolved it’- while actually I haven’t.



To resolve things I could neither accept nor change all it need is a little space for imperfection. Yes Imperfection!!

Asserting that sometimes it is OK for people to have habits that annoy me, its OK for kids to mess up things, its OK for spouse to think or act differently, its OK to have disagreements with people you care about, its OK for someone to be late at times or goof up the report. That it is absolutely Human to be imperfect.

#2 — I started questioning ‘Why on this Earth it took me over 20 years to understand this?’. I could have possibly retained and nourished those relationships that I spoiled or failed to enhance. (that’s the Price you pay when you learn on your own!)



I could see how I blindfolded my self and realized it is important to define and refine understanding of my own self. I learned ‘ My Ego is ignorance of my own reality’, and this very ego blocked my abilities to see the black holes which I was not even aware of.



It is important you know your assumptions or your Black holes.

<sorry they are yet to click a pic of a Black hole to put it here for you>

Finding Black holes is little tricky - what you perceive and the reality around could be very different. Having honest friends who don't shy away from delivering hard messages really helps. Alternately I would suggest finding a mentor or a coach.
Your ego the real dragon?
By: Taniya Sayed
Tags: Dragonspit Apothecary, Ego, Psychology

Your ego the real dragon?

The story of Siegfried and the dragon is found in both the Elde’ and the Younger Eddas, and is really the basis upon which the entire plot of the legend of Sigurd, or Siegfried, is constructed.

One archetypal meaning of the story is this: The dragon is the storm- cloud endangering the harvest. The hero who fights it is the sun, with his glorious sword, the lightning- flash. By his victory the earth is relieved from her peril.

The fable has been varied to suit the atmospheric peculiarities of different climates.

In northern mythology the serpent is probably the winter cloud, which broods over and keeps from mortals the golf of the sun’s light, and heat, till in the spring the bright orb overcomes the powers of darkness and tempest, and scatters his gold over the face of the earth.

When the sun arose, and drove away the darkness and the hidden terrors of the night, our ancestors thought of the story of a noble young hero slaying a hideous dragon, or taking possession of the golden treasures of Mist Land.

– from The Story of Siegfred by James Baldwin (1882).

Psychologically speaking Joseph Campbell’s Interpretation of the dragon archetype is my favourite:

“Psychologically, the dragon is one’s own binding of oneself to one’s ego, and you’re captured in your own dragon cage.

The real dragon is in you. That’s your ego, holding you in.

What’s my ego?

What I want, what I believe, what I can do, what I think I love and all that. What I regard as the aim of my life and so forth. It might be too small. It might be that which pins you down. And if it’s simply that of doing what the environment tells you to do, it certainly is pinning you down.

And so the environment is your dragon, as it reflects within yourself.”
The Victim’s Journey
By: Randy Gage
Tags: Success, Prosperity, Ego, Self Esteem

by Randy Gage

Posted By: Randy Gage / April 25, 2021

We’ve talked a lot in this space about the mythical hero’s journey, and how it applies in our day-to-day lives. One of the common hero journey myths is slaying the dragon. In European mythology, the dragons in these stories signify greed. (This is often portrayed by the dragon guarding great treasure which he can’t spend, or a beautiful virgin he can’t be in a relationship with.) Our hero must slay the dragon which represents his or her ego.

Still today, the great preponderance of self-help and phycology is centered around controlling the ego. This is based upon the premise that we become greedy, vain, and narcissistic in a futile attempt to placate our uncontrollable ego. We all know people this is true for. But most of the people who come to me seeking advice on living a prosperous life are not the victim of this scenario. Quite the opposite…

The dragon they have to slay doesn’t represent issues of conceit, but issues of worthiness.

Their issue isn’t that they think they’re better than the rest of the world — but that they believe they are not worthy of the world. True, they have an ego problem. But the problem they have is that their ego is not strong and healthy enough. Meantime all the self-help and personal development resources they’re studying keep telling them they must subdue their ego yet more. This creates more anxiety and guilt, leading them to mentally beat themselves up more. Instead of traversing the hero’s journey, they’re led further down the path of the victim’s journey, a self-fulfilling prophecy of lack and limitation.

Which journey are you on?

Peace,

- RG

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Communication is a Two-Way Proces
By: Ali Raza
Tags: Communication, Ego, Self, Conversations, Life

I recently learned about Prepositions of NLP and something that I had already observed was;

The meaning of the communication is not simply what you intend, but also the response that you get.

The Need to Be Always Right in Conversations

I learned something similar to the above while reading The Power of Now by Ekhart Tolle. Tolle wrote about how there’s this need to be always right in conversations. I have closely observed myself while communicating with others and for sure, he was so right when he stated that.

We often end up turning our conversations into some kinds of battles. This only hurts us and our relationships in the long run. The self that we keep defending doesn’t even exist. The more we argue with others on useless points the more we complicate our relationships.

If only we let the other person speak, listen to them carefully and truly try to understand their point of view, we would do much better in relationships.

Things as small as complimenting someone, listening to them carefully, or agreeing with them make people feel loved. It builds trust in a relationship which makes it last longer. Not just that, by being a good listener you also learn a lot.

About Respecting Other Person’s Model of the World

It’s all about perspective…

Another related point in those prepositions was;

People respond to their experiences, not to reality itself. The map is not the territory.

Everyone goes through completely different experiences which is why they end up perceiving reality so differently. What’s right and what’s wrong is subjective and depends on how the individual perceives reality. It is completely normal to have different opinions as humans.

We should always respect other person’s model of the world and try to look through their perspective. If you don’t agree with them there’s no need to make things more complicated by arguing, just admit that you have a different opinion than them and it is OK. Never ever disrespect someone just because they don’t agree with you.

Meanwhile, Never Suppress Your Inner Voice

There’s a big difference between respecting other’s opinions and sugar coating our words just to please them. I used to be like this, I would agree with everything they say because I was too insecure to lose them 😛. I got over this. The thing I learned though was that the key to change something bad is to admit that it’s bad in the first place.

Always Be Your Truest Self

We fear that we’ll lose them if we start being our truest selves. Most of the time it’s not the case. And even if it is so, if being our truest selves will scare them away, then we’re better off without them! We should never fake our personality because it is never healthy to do so.

Respect their point of view, agree with them when needed but never suppress or sugarcoat your own opinion. Always state your honest opinion in conversations while being as polite as you can.

I hope you learned something new, keep shining 🙃🌟!
When You Have To Cover Your Ass? I Was Not Trying To Be Sexy.
By: Jo Ann Harris
Tags: Beyourself, Ego, Writehere, Growing Up, Narcissism

When You Have To Cover Your Ass? I Was Not Trying To Be Sexy.

Photo by René Ranisch on Unsplash

When I was young I had a good body. I never got over 100 pounds or so. I was 5'2" with long dark hair to my waste. I didn’t have a problem getting boyfriends so I enjoyed my life. I also had a nice ass.

I was on birth control. It was the early 70’s so there was a lot of “free love” going around and I took advantage of it. Until . . .

I met him.

I didn’t want anybody else. As soon as I saw him I knew he would be the one for me for a long while. We had a good time together for eight years. We had a lot of sex and we traveled and had fun. He was very interesting and kind. He was also a sex addict but I never knew that existed until later.

Then, after four years I found out that he had been seeing other women. I still to this day can’t understand how. We were with each other a lot. This, as you can imagine, hurt my feelings because I would never do that to someone that I cared about. I stayed with him anyway. I guess I felt I didn’t want to be alone. We didn’t live together but he was with me a lot.

During that time, his narcissistic characteristics came out. He would suddenly blame me for being stupid as I had not gone to college when I asked him how something worked. He would come back with, “well if you had gone to college you would know . . .” about this or that and why it worked that way. And my favorite, “stop being so ignorant and negative.”

We talked about marriage at around our sixth or seventh year together and he said, “my family would never let me marry you. You have nothing and you are nothing.” (His aunt was a millionaire and owned a Greek island. And she wasn’t a very nice person.) I got along famously with his Mom and Dad so that was not the reason. I was so confused. (He ultimately married a stewardess that worked for Delta so he could travel free.)

One time we were going to a party and I didn’t know anyone, so I was nervous about going. I did not like doing that. I put on normal clothes which was a nice shirt and slacks which showed my curves, but it wasn’t overly sexy, and he said, “Take that off and change into a dress or something. You look like a whore.” That shocked me. Why was he saying such things? Was it because he did not want to beat off guys that were attracted to me as he had to do before when I was in slacks?
I backup my local git repositories on OneDrive
By: Alexis Lucattini
Tags: Github, Working From Home, Pycharm, Onedrive, Developer

The over-flexible work dilemma

Like many of us, I’ve been stuck working at home for the last year. I have a (until recently dormant) MacOS desktop in my office, a Windows 10 desktop that I’m writing from right now in my bedroom, and a Windows 10 laptop for when I want to work from somewhere else in the house. Working from three separate disconnected devices made working with git a nightmare.

Even pre-pandemic, any uncommitted late-night work from home wasn’t available for me to continue working on when I rocked up at the office the next morning, nor were any of the large test datasets that are too large or not appropriate to be git-controlled. I’ve also recently found myself with sweat sticking my legs to the chair as I desperately commit and push unfinished scripts to GitHub on my bedroom desktop where the room has reached 30° C, just so I could work off my laptop in the lounge under our air-conditioner.

This continuous committing and pushing leads to poor developer practices; half-finished code chunk commits, rushed commit messages, and the wrong files being added to the repo.
Working From Home Setup 3.0
By: Paul Alvarez
Tags: Productivity, Office, Working From Home, Technology, Gadgets

Working From Home Setup 3.0

My Working From Home Setup.

This will be my third Working From Home setup posts, which you can catch up on by reading the first two here:

Since WFH Setup 2.0, my wife and I moved out of our last rental and purchased our first home. With it came a lot of stress and money, but in the end set us up with a new house to call our home. Which includes a space for a nursery for our, soon to come, baby boy and, more importantly¹, a new shared office space.

I will admit that the office size is not as large as I would have liked it to be, but I feel I have made some right buying decisions and planning to make the setup work great in the space available. With a large window facing out to the pool, repainted walls with a cool blue accent wall, and upgrading light with a ceiling fan, all I needed to figure out is how my desk setup would be.

When I started thinking about how I wanted my new space to be, I had to consider the fact that I am still working from home. I missed no longer having a way to stand while I work and I was ready to move on from the pure white-colored desk that I have had for over five years now.

I was also required to return my 27-inch 4K Monitor for work and was given a smaller 24-inch 1080p monitor. This also led me to no longer make the monitor a focal point or essential part of my desk setup. The monitor is literally just a tool for me when I need to extend my 13-inch work laptop, not for constant use, whether for work or personal related tasks.

A lot has changed, yet there is still very little to go over since I still tried to keep my setup minimal. Like my other Work From Home Setup posts, I want to separate how I use this setup for work versus personal.