IIT, chalkboard, zero slides
A 22-year-old at IMC gets paid $500,000 in year one for exactly one skill. Not picking winners. Seeing every trade as a full spread of outcomes, each one with its own odds attached.
Her name is Prabha Sharma. She teaches this exact skill on a bare chalkboard, for free, in a lecture almost nobody outside that room has ever watched.
Most people see a trade as a coin flip. Win or lose. Nothing else.
You already think this way about your own trades, don't you.
That's the mistake. A trade is never just win or lose. It's a spread of outcomes, each with its own odds and its own payoff attached before a single dollar moves. The formula for this is called the binomial distribution, and it's far simpler than it sounds.
Here it is:
P(X = k) = C(n,k) × p^k × (1-p)^(n-k)
n = how many bets you take
p = your real win probability on each one
k = how many of them you actually want to win
Try it yourself right now. Say you have a genuine 55% edge (p = 0.55) and you take 10 trades (n = 10). What's the actual chance you win at least 6 of them?
Plug in k = 6: P(X=6) = C(10,6) × 0.55^6 × 0.45^4 ≈ 23.8%
Add that up across every value of k from 6 to 10, and your real odds of winning at least 6 out of 10 land around 47%. Just under a coin flip, with a genuine edge in your favor.
Sit with that for a second. A 55% edge does not feel like 55% once you actually run the math over a small number of trades.
This is the exact formula that decides how much to risk on any single bet, once you actually know your edge. Sharma builds the whole thing from zero, in notation simple enough for a complete beginner to follow every step.
Wall Street pays $500,000 a year for this one skill. An IIT professor already gave the entire thing away, for free, on a blackboard nobody bothered to watch.
This is the very first Dharana technique mentioned in Vigyan Bhairav Tantra but here this person has termed it as Brahm's technique after the monk.
Bhairava is described as the silence between two thoughts.
The gap between two mental thoughts or two breaths is described as the portal to enter into Bhairav consciousness which is silence and beyond duality.
There are total 112 techniques which can make you aware of the silence.
Dhyana follows naturally once you have adapted to Dharana.
In India, we have a Nautanki system of Governance. Modi could have become Lee Kuan Yew in 2014 and the public was ready, instead he opted for poverty politics.
Success is largely genetic. You need to be born with a subset of pre-determined traits, in order to be successful by metrics of human performance:
- High Intelligent (Ability to solve complex problems)
- High conscientiousness (Ability to work long hours without tiring out)
- Low Agreeableness (Task prioritisation and defense against exploitation and manipulation)
- Low Neuroticism (Ability to deal with extreme amounts of stress)
- A sense of never ending restless (insatiable greed, i.e ambition)
Lee Kuan Yew:
I don’t believe in love at first sight. I think it’s a grave mistake. You’re attracted by physical characteristics and you will regret it.
Mark Ruffalo reveals the powerful lesson on personal accountability he learned from Robert Downey Jr. after his time in prison
"I have a friend who spent time in prison. He had a drug issue, and he's sober 17 years now he's a great actor.
He told me, 'Mark, there's no excuses, but there's reasons.'
'I'm not going to make any excuses for why I ended up in prison. I deserved to be in prison. But there's reasons why...'
Nobody wants to hear the truth about IQ because it is ugly.
Jordan Peterson says the differences in how easily people learn and handle abstract work are huge, and they show up in paychecks and status. Conservatives like to say there is a job waiting if you just get after it. Liberals like to say anyone can be trained to do anything.
Both skip the same reality: a lot of people struggle enough with complexity that finding a solid place in this economy has become brutally hard. He says we have no plan for that and we will not even look at it.
Pretending the gap is not there does not shrink it.