Do you have a QA Analyst on your software team or………..

Cristiano Ronaldo shares the mindset shift that changed how he sees life “Sometimes we give so much energy to situations that don’t go well in our lives but when you have a health problem you just stop and your priority is the cure to resolve the sickness. The other things are not important” “We put everything in the same package trying to solve so many problems when sometimes this isn’t a problem. This is just situations of life, daily things” “We focus on so many things and we forget to focus on the main thing. Focus on your priorities, don’t focus on so many things” “This is what I learned over time. You start to see life in a different way”

"Until death, all defeat is psychological." - Marcus Aurelius Refuse everything that would lead most people to give up. Refuse it. Rise from the dead 1000 times. Commit to never stay down & never give up. Everything you want is on the other side of struggle.

No sin is bigger than Allah’s mercy. The only real loss is giving up on returning to Him.

Jeff Bezos on why he protects his mornings, his sleep, and his decision-making: Bezos is asked about his unusual routine. No meetings before 10 a.m., eight hours of sleep, no PowerPoints. He walks through the philosophy behind it. He starts with the morning: "I like to putter in the morning. I get up early. I go to bed early. I get up early. I like to putter in the mornings. I like to read the newspaper. I like to have coffee. I like to have breakfast with my kids before they go to school." That puttering time, he says, is non-negotiable. It's why his first meeting is at 10. And the timing of meetings isn't accidental either: "I like to do my high IQ meetings before lunch. Like anything that's going to be really mentally challenging, that's a 10 o'clock meeting. And because by 5:00 p.m. I'm like, I can't think about that today. Let's try this again tomorrow at 10:00 a.m." Then he gets to sleep. He prioritises eight hours, and frames it not as self-care but as a job requirement: "I think better. I have more energy. My mood is better… As a senior executive, what do you really get paid to do? As a senior executive, you get paid to make a small number of high quality decisions. Your job is not to make thousands of decisions every day. Is that really worth it if the quality of those decisions might be lower because you're tired or grouchy or any number of things?" Bezos is careful to note this isn't universal advice. A 100-person startup is a different story. But Amazon isn't a startup, and at his level the math changes, fewer decisions, higher stakes, longer time horizons. Which leads to the part of the philosophy that ties it all together. He doesn't think his executives should be focused on the current quarter at all: "They work in the future. They live in the future. None of the people who report to me should really be focused on the current quarter… We'll have a good quarterly conference call and Wall Street will like our quarterly results and people will stop me and say, 'Congratulations on your quarter,' and I say thank you. But what I'm really thinking is that quarter was baked 3 years ago. Right now I'm working on a quarter that's going to reveal itself in 2021 sometime." The whole system, the slow morning, the protected sleep, the morning-only hard meetings, the three-year horizon points at one thing: "If I make like three good decisions a day, that's enough."

Alain de Botton On Love As Education Alain de Botton on one of the most unhelpful expectations we bring to relationships: "A really unhelpful expectation is the idea that in a good relationship everything about us should be approved of by our partner." He points out how common it's become to hear people say things like: *"Oh I had to break up with my partner because they didn't really accept me for who I am."* But Alain pushes back on this framing: "Do you accept who you are fully? No. None of us accept who we are fully, and none of us should expect to be fully accepted by other people. What we need to do is to not accept parts of ourselves with kindness and grace. It's judgmentalness that's the enemy, not the desire to nudge people towards being better versions of themselves." He continues: "When love is functioning properly we are able to tell our partners that there are things wrong with them, but they're able to listen without feeling under intolerable attack. Part of the work of love is helping people to evolve into better versions of themselves." According to Alain, a real brittleness creeps in when people interpret any desire for change as a betrayal: "There can be a real brittleness that comes in when people think 'if my partner in any way wants something to be different in me, that means they're not on my side.' Of course they could be on your side. They're totally on your side. They want you to improve. That's part of what love is." He draws on the ancient Greeks to reframe what love is actually for: "The ancient Greeks helpfully thought that love is a kind of classroom where, under the aegis of the tenderness of love, people are able to take the big steps towards acknowledging some of their flaws, rather than clinging rigidly on to who they happen to be and saying 'that's me and you've got to accept me, come hell or high water.'" His conclusion: "We should accept that love is a kind of process of education. We should be educating one another to be better than we currently are."

To those who do not pray...

Coming home and opening my wardrobe to keep my hijab I find a tiny bouquet of flowers and a smile broke on my face knowing fully well who thoughtfully put it there. ❤️

Coming home and opening my wardrobe to keep my hijab I find a tiny bouquet of flowers and a smile broke on my face knowing fully well who thoughtfully put it there. ❤️

Let the show begin!!!

This is what trauma looks like. Learned helplessness as a means of survival, the amygdala acting as an emergency back alley for quick action even in harmless circumstances that resemble a past threatening experience. Emotional high hacking of the brain ❗️

Paul Graham spent 7 months writing a single essay in 2023. It started as one paragraph inside another piece he was working on, and the idea kept pulling at him until he cut it out and built it into something that ended up being nearly 12,000 words long. The essay is called "How to Do Great Work" and I have read it multiple times because it contains more useful thinking about ambition and output than most books I have ever finished. Here is the framework buried inside it that most people miss: His opening argument destroyed something I had believed for years. He says the most important decision in doing great work is not how hard you work or how smart you are. It is what you decide to work on. Originality in choosing problems matters even more than originality in solving them. That is what separates people who make incremental contributions from people who discover entire new fields. Most ambitious people spend almost no time thinking carefully about this, and then wonder why their hard work feels like it is going nowhere. The second insight changed how I think about knowledge itself. He says knowledge expands fractally, and from a distance the edges of any field look smooth and complete. But once you learn enough to get genuinely close to those edges, they turn out to be full of gaps. The problem is that your brain actively wants to ignore those gaps in order to build a simpler model of the world. The people who do great work are the ones who train themselves to notice the gaps instead of smoothing over them, because the gap is exactly where the new work lives. The third hit me harder than anything else in the essay. He says if you asked an oracle the single secret to doing great work and the oracle answered in one word, his bet would be on "curiosity." His reasoning is precise: your curiosity never lies, and it knows more than you do about what is actually worth paying attention to. Interest will drive you to work harder than mere diligence ever could, because interest does not require willpower to sustain itself. The fourth was the one that made me put the essay down and think for a long time. He says people think big ideas are answers, but often the real insight was in the question. Schools train us to treat questions as temporary placeholders that exist only until they get answered. But a genuinely good question is not a gap waiting to be filled it is itself a partial discovery. Asking the right question means you have already reached territory that almost no one else has reached. His formula for the factors behind great work is deliberately simple: ability, interest, effort, and luck. Luck you cannot control, so set it aside. Effort you can assume if you are serious. That leaves ability and interest, and the entire game becomes finding the specific intersection where those two things collide with enough force to generate ideas that compound into something nobody has ever built before. He took seven months to write the essay. He said it was the best filter he could design, because anyone who actually read the whole thing had already proven something about themselves. The people willing to do the reading are already closer than they think.

Thanks to the cheering students at Ahmadu Bello University. Lovely to receive such a warm welcome! @abuzaria4all

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May Allah forgive and have mercy on Saleh al-Jafarawi 😭💔 Spread his Recitation, so that he can benefit from the rewards

Ya Rabb!!!

Whoever relies on Allah, He is sufficient for them 🤍

We often question why difficult days come into our lives, but sometimes they arrive with wisdom. Hard days expose intentions, reveal true loyalty, and show who really belongs in your life. Allah allows the truth to surface at the right time, even when it hurts, because some lessons can only be learned through hardship.