Hints that you’re a person who gets high not on drugs, but on your own excellent thought process. — High-level thinking is an experience like no other. It’s when several unique ideas coalesce to form extraordinary insights giving rise to epiphanies — just like colours mix to form new colours. Such epiphanies — borne in the brilliant minds of high-level thinkers —carry the capacity to influence the world.

The aim of life is to rise above. — Spiritual intelligence helps you rise above what the material world has to offer. It allows you to access and enjoy the energy that isn’t visible to other people. You feel like you’re a part of something so much bigger than yourself. It’s an achievement everyone should aim for. In this…

It emerges at the junction of understanding of self and of others. — Social intelligence is one of the most difficult types of intelligence to develop. This is because, in addition to an understanding of self, it also requires you to have a decent understanding of how other people function. And then, at the intersection of those two types of understanding, social intelligence…

And what they do instead. — High-level thinking requires you to outgrow certain natural instincts. Because it’s not like someone is born a great thinker. We’re all born average thinkers, and we have some natural instincts wired into our brains. These instincts help at times, however, they also prevent us from higher-level thinking. To evolve as…

Minimize what you regret when you’re on your deathbed. — Garyvee got it right. The biggest poison in us is regret. But it’s super-tricky. Regret is not an immediate consequence of your actions. You do or don’t do something today, and you’ll end up regretting it years later. This is problematic because it prevents learning from the feedback of your…

What people think of you is feedback. You should pay attention to it. — When people tell you that you should not care what others think about you, it’s pure bullshit. Because you should. I’m not saying that you should care what people will think about every little decision you make. But you should care about the overall opinion people have of you. Because…

“Holy shit” moments that make you feel like you’ve seen the light significantly grow your brainpower. — Epiphanies significantly boost your intelligence. You know what they feel like. They’re the “Holy shit!” moments you get when you finally understand something or discover the truth about something after having believed in a lie for a long time. It’s like a corn kernel pops in your head to become…

Reading is not a race. Stop treating it like one. — Society has a tendency to create everything into a race. Reading is good for you. So people tend to believe that the more you read, the better. And hence, speedreading came into the equation. And people bragging about how many books they read in a year became normal. However, I…

If I wrapped you up in a pretty pink box with a bow on top and gave it to mother Earth, would she be happy when she opens the box? — Every once in a while, I meet someone and immediately realize that this person is a gift to the world. Such people have one thing in common: they leave the world better than they found it. …