Muhammad Ibrahim

Dreams are an essential part of a vital life, but they cannot become more real than reality. The trap I fall into is letting my fondness for an ideal future become a fixation on fantasy. Dazed by the divine image of how things could look, instead of working with the raw and gritty reality of my real life.

In Greek, charisma translates as a “gift.” Rather than keep that gift to exploit for themselves, some charismatic people disperse it. They hand it out at social events, such as the holiday parties at this time of year, and use it to guide the energy of a shared occasion. I call these people vibe popes. Consider it a nondenominational title for... See more

We can ditch our managers, offices, or professions, but any horizontal leap will only land us on another treadmill. Resignation does not liberate us from the rat race. The ultimate escape—transcendence—is vertical, not horizontal. Otherwise, our individuality will be used for anything but our own good.

If you aren’t getting people’s attention, you disappear and don’t matter anymore, so you feed the abundance with your own posts, keeping the cycle going (unless you’re smart enough not to care anymore, but who are those people?). Most of us just keep adding to the abundance, while trying to get attention – the most valuable commodity today.

I think business networking is a complete waste of time. And I know there are people and companies popularizing this concept because it serves them and their business model well, but the reality is if you’re building something interesting, you will always have more people who will want to know you. Trying to build business relationships well in

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