Rizky Syaiful’s Beliefs

Version: November 2016

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I Believe…

My Life Theme

• …is the happiness of humanity

My Happiness

• …is measured by how grateful I thought I’d be, when I’m suddenly facing the last seconds of my life.

Life Theme

• …is a wide range of topics I thought I’d love to explore until I die — even without any external benefit at all
• …is being used as reference on setting my life goals
• …is still changeable, though unlikely to change

My Life Goals

1. …is staying alive & doing my part — like every other things in this universe does.
2. …is producing a lot of new better humans — like every other DNA-based things in this earth does.
3. …is re-launching AgileCampus.org as an online learning portals — so that I have a new passive money stream
4. …is launching Wikikandidat.com — so that I can claim that as the result of my agile software development expertise, thus my sales increase
5. …is giving a more fun career for my father
   Done. In 2016, I bought him a car, so he can be a full time Uber driver — he loves every spatial adventures
6. …is launching a blog that serves people like JamesAltucher.com does—so that I can start build the tribe of human happiness enthusiasts
7. …is marrying someone that share a same life themes — so that some of our basic needs are easily fulfilled & both of us become more productive
8. …is making sure my parents, sisters, wife, children, to be a holistically healthy person — because I love them

My Healthy Body*

should be able to

• …lift at least my weight on a bench press
• …run at least 2,5 km in 10 minutes
• …run at least 274 meters in 1 minutes
• …jump at least 50 cm vertical-jump height
• …lift at least 2 times of my weight on leg press Passed
• …swim at least 450 meters in 12 minutes
• …push-up at at least 40 times without a rest
• …has at least 0.82 waist-hip ratio
• …touch my toes — in a sit-and-reach test
• …toss a basketball at least 3/4 of basket ball court length by kneeling

*) Credit to http://www.menshealth.com/fitness/fitness-level-tests.

My Healthy Brain

should

• …be able to imagine the calculation of at least 4 digits on abacus
• …has at least 120 IQ point** Passed — recent stat: 140
• …be able to play music Passed — guitar, piano, violin
• …generate at least 10 ideas on anything everyday***

**) Credit to Malcolm Gladwell on his book, Outliers.
***) Credit to http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2014/05/the-ultimate-guide-for-becoming-an-idea-machine/.

My Healthy Perspective

should be fed

• …a TED video every week
• …a book/online-course every month
• …a movie every week
• …a novel every semester
• …friends from as many background as possible

My Healthy Social Life

should be maintained by

• …maintaining the health of my non-social life
• …hugging my beloved ones every time we will separates
• …being okay to be vulnerable — people relate with failures
• …asking for forgiveness as soon as I realize I make a mistake

My Healthy Spiritual Life

should be maintained by

• …being insanely grateful after my daily praying
• …sharing the credit to God, whenever I’m succeed on something
• …waiting & seeing, whenever I’m angry or upset on something

My Healthy Financial Life

should be maintained by

• …having no credit card — and all unproductive debt
• …tracking my routine spending
• …maintaining my routine spending as small and as valuable as possible
• …maintaining my bank account to covers my six months routine spending
• …thrive for multiple source of incomes
• …invest my remaining wealth conservatively — only up until my routine passive income covers all of my routine spending
• …invest the remaining wealth at risky disruptive investment
• …maintaining the state of being able to survive even in force majeure condition — even at zombie outbreak level;

My Healthy Romantic Life

should be maintained by

• …securing my financial life before pursuing any new opportunity
• …creating many quality times on top of the same beliefs we share
• …accepting the different beliefs we have — if there’s one I can’t compensate, work it out with her ASAP, if it’s unworkable, leave her ASAP
• …caring her small emotional need and courtesy

Life

• The good ways to life could be easily learnt — by observing things that already exist before us and literally the basis of our existence (a.k.a nature)
• Our nature dictate any DNA-based things to survive
• I should avoid anything that’d kill me — or even just shorten my life
• Our nature dictate any things to do their each part for their universe
• I should explore and maximize my strengths so it can benefits the universe
• Our nature dictate any DNA-based things to replicate their hopefully-better-version as many as possible
• I should do all biological & psychological human reproduction cycle well — finding a good female, having sex, caring my pregnant female, caring my toddler, educating the child, mentoring her/him to adulthood
• I should spread my subjectively positive beliefs to others — psychological human reproduction
• Our nature dictate any DNA-based things not to intentionally destroy our environment — even animal kills just because they can’t make their own food like plant
• I should minimize my plastic waste
• I should support environmental initiatives
• Our nature dictate any moving DNA-based things (a.k.a animal) to explore
• I should explore

Negative Emotion

• Whenever I feel sad or angry, there is at least a belief that cause that
• Find it soon. Deconstruct it. Ask “why” until I reach the first principle of it

Belief

• …is a statement that someone — at some point in their life — accept as true for whatever reason
• Everything in our head, that we can state in the form of sentence, is just a belief
• Even — if we dive deeper philosophically — our sensory experience is just an statement that we accept as true (belief)
• All of reasoning is only using beliefs as their ingredient
• A baby doesn’t have consciousness, because it doesn’t have enough beliefs yet to form their storing and reasoning capability (a.k.a consciousness)
• There is a strong correlation among belief, language, and consciousness
• A set of beliefs is human operation system — that no other animal have
• What determined our happiness is our beliefs — not the condition itself
• Someone’s set of beliefs is changing over time — wether she/he realize it or not

Consciousness

• …is measured by the level of awareness and ability to manually update our own set of beliefs
• …synonym is self-awareness
• Self-awareness can be hone by practices such as writing diary, meditating, never stop asking why until reach the first principle, reading biography, learning others life, etc

Dogma

• …is a statement that the holder think is always true and can’t be wrong
• …is actually just a belief that the holder accept just because the authority say it so — that’s why the holder think it can’t be wrong
• Human has natural bias toward authority body

Friend

• A good friend believes we can be a better person—at least in certain areas
• A good friends are a mentor & mentee to each other

Human

• …are born with instinct, not belief, not even one belief
• …(but) can be contaminated by beneficial beliefs or harmful beliefs
• …strive for their own happiness
• …strive for intimate connection of others human being
• …should have a capability to fulfill their own basic needs, even though in something worst happen to them.
• …should have multiple source of incomes
• Most of humanity problems are just a communication problem. Both intra-personal & inter-personal communication.

Peace

• World peace is possible
• Peace among people, is quite similar, with peace among voices inside someone’s head

is depend on

• …the fulfillment of basic needs of all the member
• …the number of opposing beliefs
• …the way to handle opposing beliefs

Elitism

• …is the peace maker among people inside the group
• …(but) is the peace destroyer among other groups — because it has natural tendency to produce beliefs that harm the other tribe
• Elitism used to work well to govern humanity, but not anymore — because the rise of internet as a powerful distribution channel of beliefs
• The more diverse the friends or majority people in the planet, the more peace world would be

Formal Mandatory School

• …is still the best tool for maintaining peace
• …is the second best place to spend tax money — after infrastructure
• …should teach everyone to be able to fulfill their own basic needs — even in war or monetary crisis times. (read: teach the importance of multiple income stream)

Government

• The more some entities fulfill each other needs, the greater the need of those entities to create a government body
• The more distributed the self-awareness level of the entities, the greater the need of ownership distribution of the government body
• Because we historically move toward a more literate civilization, a good government body operates like co-op: owned & managed by the members, only to handle certain aspect of member’s life
• Direct-participatory democracy is the best mechanism to run a big co-op
• A president is only a head executioner of directions that citizens desire
• Municipal is the most important government body — in term of physical dimension
• A municipal should have self-sufficient logistic source — only trades non-essential needs
• An international government body that handle international crime (like terrorism), trading, formal mandatory education, and scientific research should be exist
• A good co-op is 100% transparent to the owner (a.k.a their members), all of the decisions and transactions are published and easy to audit

Military

• Military is the only real strength
• Military should own logistic sources that makes them self-sufficient
• All military forces in this earth should be use for improving the survival & fighting capability of common people — due to the possible extra-terrestrial threat.