This list is the principles that I hope I can stick for the next 10 years. I should come back to this and review often and hopefully this is also useful for anyone who is reading.
- Follow my nature: go to bed when I am sleepy, wake up naturally, eat what I find delicious and study what I am curious about. Always follow my ideas and my questions. Avoid the opposite: wake up to an alarm clock, do what someone asks me to and mold myself to fit the system. This principles can be approximated by the next 2.
- Write more: center my thinking around writing instead of reading. Writing helps me formulate and develop my ideas and thoughts. It slows me down in a frenzy world that sucks me into the information black hole. It provides calmness and fulfillment. Don’t forget to read what I have written too.
- Ask as many questions as I can: Asking questions means I am centered, am in charge, and I am not merely fed with answers or whatever is being provided. And questions are more important than answers anyway, original and interesting questions lead to things completely unexpected.
- 实事求是：从自身出发制定切合实际的和异想天开的目标。邓小平。
- Training measured in weeks: practice is driving a desired pattern into intuition so that it is there when I want it. And the process typically takes weeks, a lot of spaced repetitions. The opposite is futile: expecting the pattern re-occurring right after I produce it once. That is why I can actually enjoy rest of my life and company of people: progress doesn’t happen right away anyway.
- Talk to people: we live in our own hallucination, literally. That means no matter how much/fast I read and learn on my own, I gain something from others because no two hallucinations are the same.
Other useful advice that I love:
Gang Fang's Blog 
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