Ziyomuhammad

We placed in top 10 at world start-up competition.

In regards to our project's potential.

Successfully failed.

Hope for the best and plan for the worst.

This powerful piece applies to literally every facet of life. Sports, education, application.

It captures the essence of the optimal approach—no disappointment in case of plights.

I find it very relatable and relevant, especially these times. So the crunch is give your best, and be ready for the terrible.

Let's rev up the engines for the month and season ahead!

Good luck, everyone!

Hey, any dombit alumni here? If yes, text me at @ziyanoor. It is for important business.

I hope that it's not so late.

Balance. Balance. Balance.

This concept me is hitting me wherever I go. Be it in the essays, rest or studies.

Ideally, you would want to write a narrative-style essay for the most efficiency. It illuminates more about you and has a stronger purpose than other types.

While writing in this style, there are two qualities to keep tight in mind: analysis & flowery. Maybe more accurate is uniqueness, not flowery. Being too analytical makes your essay monotonous, and doesn't show your unique voice. Too much flowery won't allow for adequate reflection.

Other scenario. You just finished wriring your essay, and now it requires editing. However, there is a caveat. Editing is not always good. You want to polish your essay so it flows smoothly and reflects a clear central idea. However, you don't want to pack it with too much details & reflection that your editing becomes counterproductive.

So, what's the takeaway? It's all about finding that subtle line between opposing or seemingly opposing things. I can't exactly elaborate on how. But I can point to where to start: think critically and keep going drastic until you find the last point of feasibility.

Hi, community! It has been some time since I have posted.

I want to do a quick analysis, survey or you name it now: please tell 5 words that first come to your mind about me.

I will appreciate any honest input, and anything negative is absolutely welcome! Send those in either direct message or anonymous bot (http://t.me/questianonbot?start=663370061b).

Thanks,
Ziyomuhammad

Reach out to @ziyanoor for further questions.

Wrote 700+ words, had to chop off half of them.

And this is just the beginning i believe.

question yourself, your surroundings and everything. it is not immoral to give questions; instead, if you had stopped asking questions, that is when i would think you ceased to improve. for search for the truth — or curiousity — is what elevates humans.

processes in this life are vague. how to achieve success? how to be a good person? how to achieve balance? are all processes that are objectively hard to unpack. so what do you do? thats when the act of questioning comes into help.

this method is not just important to operate in society but hugely necessary. like socrates said ''an unexamined life is not worth living".

You might think it too extreme to question everything. But yeah of course it must be within limits of logic and rationale...

With this approach, you may be able to dive into the deepest corners of your mind and see through the littlest subtleties hidden. Its exactly like you are in the matrix, and instead of the usual sceneries, the underlying codes start to appear. So essentially, you are seeing through 4D. Might be an exaggeration lol.

think about time and how it could be divided into different parts — past, present and future.

present is the line between past and future. how thick is it?

past doesnt exist because it has already passed. while future is yet to happen, so it does not exist too.

then present is nothing that is dividing nothingness from nothingness.

right now is present, but also every moment is present...

Does having experience mean you have a mastery of a skill?

wanted to write on this long ago, but this was apparently the destined time for execution.

through reading nietzche and others, i realized that constructing a nuanced argument was always the best as it allowed to you look at the matter through two or more lenses. this then made you the least biased.

what is experience? it is a direct exposure to a type of activity. now i want to be as less biased as possible, thus giving the least inclination to either sides of the matter, that is experience=mastery or no.

does exposure to x imply you gained sth about x, yes and no. the reason is simply participating in a lesson or observation doesnt mean you learned sth from it. deliberate concentration and engagement does. yes yes, exposure can mean a little gain, but it is so little that no impact is made to overall elevation of a person.

take a student for a example who exposes himself to lessons and observations every single day, yet there seems to be no evidence of a trifle growth. and that is because experiencing an event does not mean you fully or sufficiently got the most out of it. if that were the case, then literally every other person you meet would be smart and your ego would shatter into unfixable pieces.

i can derive from this that experience does not necessarily mean master or skilled at a task. it is just correlated with it. and statistically speaking, if i were to ratio the people who effectively capitalized on their experience with those who did not, it would get too small — that is people with no growth would overweigh the other by a huge degree.

with that, i am trying to address the conservative system of employee selection where they first look at the experience YEARS of the worker then at soft and hard core skills.

International Hackathon?!

I joined a team of ambitious kazakh students and we are organizing an international hackathon.

Make sure to join as it can be a canon for you. It will allow you to network with students from other central asian countries and explore your creativity.


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how to study and learn effectively. A quick recap of "how to study effectively by Andrew Huberman"

neurologically, there is a term called neural plasticity which is when your brain changes in proportional to the information you are receiving. there are three types of it. 1 strengthening of the connections 2 weakening 3 addition of the connections.

important thing to keep in mind is as you grow you do not develop new neural connections throughout your brain, but actually lose them, in that they decrease yet get more refined and stronger. more deeply, as you process info again and again, neurons are finding the most effective and fastest pathways to transmit the data, which results in the cut off of the obsolete paths that are not used.

now when it comes to a practical side of the topic, there are surely some stratagem to make your brain more fatty and improve your learning efficiency. first is the strain. you really need that challenging piece of text that you take hours to unpack. without that, the neural placticty does not happen and thus your brain doesnt change because the work is easy.

mindfulness is also crucial to be considered, which is often in the form of 5-10 mins meditation. this act essentially involves you trying to bring back your focus again and again to a specific point in location or time. you zone out, you bring your mind back to that point. this way, you teach your brain to concentrate on a task. likewise, when you are studying and get distracted, you can easily return to the relevant task.

sleep is without question the most important part of effective acquisition. why is it so. we talked about the neural plasticity which is when effective pathways are created. interestingly, this very process occurs during rem sleep (rapid eye movement) - a form of deep sleep. thus, you need quality nights sleep. sht i need to sleep.

however, going more technical and empiric, researchers have observed and evaluated the top ten habits of the most successful students. through the study, they found these students typically had delegated hours for studying, teaching what they learnt, aspirational goal, and studying alone.

when you specially allocate time for studying, it is a concious decision, so you are informing your brain it will be some heavy math lunch. while teaching, you might think, may put you at a competitive disadvantage it actually does not. rather, it helps to solidify knowledge you acquired through revision.

then most profoundly, testing. the best and optimal way to study is testing yourself, according to neuroscientific academia, which has been proved and put into very large consensus. while writing this, i realize that i could be sleeping and making my brain fattier, but i deemed it useful to share the info with others as well. who are on same boat with me tryng to cram for their exams. instant questions right after you come out of the lecture, lesson or a workshop is a great tool to retain most of the info accurately. also, you need to give yourself or prepare yourself open-ended questions that compel you to think and contemplate unlike multiple-choice when you can basically manipulate and select the most beatiful-looking option.

tried to sum it up as concisely and effectively. good night!