EGYPT UNDER THE PHARAOHS

PREDYNASTIC AND EARLY DYNASTIC PERIODS

Painting and Sculpture

PALETTE OF KING NARMER

Narmer’s palette’s narration is the normal form in Egypt, the artist use registers to make the palette more orderly, the figures in the palette combining profile view and frontal view. The pharaoh is the biggest in the center.

Architecture

MASTABAS

Mastaba is the standard tomb type in early Egypt. It’s a rectangular brick or stone structure with sloping sides.

IMHOTEP

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Prologue: Managing your life as an integrated whole

The old road map: Our planet face a lot of problems since the Industry Revolution, seems like we are using the old road map from the 19th century as for money and our life.

Creating a new road map

Thinking in new ways

Financially independent thinking

The results of FI thinking. You will naturally go to FI intelligence. One outcome of FI intelligence is saving six months of expences in your bank account at least.

Self

High levels are abstract. People alway want to go higher level thinking.

Shifting to low levels has two benefits, the first is people can avoid the control of high levels, the second is, people escape from strong emotions like anxiety.

People usually change between high levels and low levels.

Self-awareness can occurs at different levels, at low levels, like pain and movement.

Self-worth is very important if they cannot justify their actions and feel progress for their goals,… ...➔➔➔

MESOPOTAMIA AND PERSIA

Sumer

The Sumerians developed city-states and formed a white temple for rituals. Sumerians also produced great literature.

INANNA

It is a female head make up with fragments of white marble.

WARKA VASE

It was the first work of pictorial narration.

ESHNUNNA STATUETTES

The oversized eyes of these statuettes depict that the worships for deities and the wakefulness to the connection between deities and them.

STELE OF THE VULTURES

The steel shows the battle of Sumerian.

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How We Procrastinate

CREATING SAFETY: THE FIRST MAJOR STEP OUT OF PROCRASTINATION

Imaging that we always transform the task to a board before ourself, we can perform well if this board is on the land, but if the board is suspended between two buildings 100 feet above the pavement, then we are fearful to pass it.What’s more, we always feel a fire behind ourself.

We always fell in self-criticism so we use procrastinate to put off tasks until the deadline. It’s a victim mentality that we think… ...➔➔➔

Loneliness

The author got some experiences which saw so many disabilities, they full of loneliness, painful.

A human being needs a companion, and we need truths and make our worlds or communities better.

Community and Rigid Order

This is a paradox between the desire to belong, to fit in a community and to serve the deepest mind for oneself, close to God and be freedom.

The Weakness of a Child

We all born with weakness, we need love from parents as we cannot survive without others help. So if we … ...➔➔➔

Between Damocles and Hydra

HALF OF LIFE HAS NO NAME

The opposite of fragile is not robust, half of our life has no name for.

PLEASE BEHEAD ME

We need to become Hydra, the serpent-like creature, we need some doses of antifragility, otherwise the sword of Damocles will get you.

On the Necessity of Naming

In the history of human, so many names of colors didn’t created, but this doesn’t mean we cannot discern different colors. We are doing more than we think.

PROTO-ANTIFRAGILITY

Hormesis is the first… ...➔➔➔

Prologue

Formal education cannot bring discovery and progress, only aggressive risk can.

In modern times, so many people avoid fragility through the expences of others.

The Antidote to The Black Swan

We are very thirsty for order, we should embrace the randomness so that we can become control order.

When facing small probabilities, we often fail, so only when understanding it, then we will not fearful.

Robust Is Not Robust Enough

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