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Think and act for the fulfillment of your personal ambitions and business missions.

Think, speak, learn, design, craft and act with the most powerful thinkers and actors willing to work with you.

Practice holding and working in moods of:

Ambition for avoiding threats, fulfilling obligations and making and taking advantage of opportunities

Wonder about what you have to learn

Passion for your future and the fulfillment of your ambitions

Enthusiasm for your work, ethics, offers, communities, autonomy, accomplishments, identities, roles and organizations

Read texts carefully and twice.

Reciprocate often, thoughtfully, respectfully with others.

Be appreciative, grateful and thank people who contribute to your capacity to think and act more effectively and powerfully.

Obligate yourself to give value back for value you have received without being asked.

Remember that you will always need help and that the larger and more uncommon your ambitions  -- such as producing a high level annual income --  the more powerful the help you require.

Seek recursion  -- deepening your understanding of moods, distinctions and practices.

Increase your inventory of tactics and strategies for fulfilling your ambitions and business missions.

Learn distinctions to deepen, enrich and increase your capacity to observe, assess, constitute, design, craft and make effective thoughts and actions, interpretations, and commitments.

Learn, practice and increase the effectiveness of how you think and act beyond normal, common, average or traditional standards.

Use The Aji Space and Strategic Work Sessions, The Aji Source Fundamental Strategy and other offers made by The Aji Network recurrently, consistently and coherently with other knowledge-based strategies for fulfilling your ambitions.

Think and act coherently and consistently with “Ethics of Power”.

Think and act coherently and consistently with the philosophies, facts and mechanisms of power.

Learn fundamental philosophies, tactics, strategies and practices for accumulating power “by heart” and practice using them at every opportunity.

When speaking about or working on “making money”, keep the distinctions between money being offers and currency being a substitute for money to increase efficiency with transactions in the marketplace clear.

Be respectful.

Honor the rules of each forum.

Make offers and commitments to help others often, responsibly and valuably.

Keep your commitments and act consistently with your assessments.

Accept declines, and move on in a good mood.

Respond promptly to offers and requests with acceptances, declines, counters, commit-to-commits or requests for explanation.

Cooperate and coordinate with others inexpensively, i.e. don’t require any more time, energy, money or lost opportunities to work with you than is absolutely necessary.

Avoid “adverse selection”  --  making commitments or actions that move you into situations, categories or groups that are weak, unproductive or counter productive

Avoid making commitments or actions that are strategically incoherent with the fulfillment of your lifestyle, financial and business ambitions

Acknowledge differentials in power explicitly and/or implicitly, i.e., accept differences in capacity to design, craft, make, fulfill and produce satisfaction with highly valued offers that build career, produce leadership roles and generate very high annual incomes.

Speculate more and assert that you already know less.

Seek to increase the power and sophistication of the distinctions you and others use for the fulfillment of your ambitions.

Honor your obligations.

Allow others to make and fulfill obligations to you.

Be a gracious, dignified, generous, decent and powerful leader and follower.

Don’t confuse producing a “good identity” in a competitive, knowledge-based endeavor with being popular.

Notice and value your power and the power of others.

Encourage thought and action with others that enables them to accumulate knowledge and power.

Always move in the direction of improving your knowledge and power to act to fulfill your personal ambitions and business missions.

Participate consistently with remembering that the concerns and ambitions of other participants are as important to them as yours are to you.

Accept responsibility and apologize quickly for any offense or inappropriate costs you cause others.

Write as clearly and succinctly as possible.

Be “too busy” to participate, cooperate with others, coordinate action and keep your commitments, and let people know.

Prioritize your commitments with other participants.

Don’t notice and acknowledge when people contribute to you and your capacity to think and act effectively.

Be a “charming jerk” who says all the right things in an effort to get away with as much as you can for as long as you can.

Be sneaky promoting yourself and your offers as if people will not notice.

Take as much as you can and contribute as little as possible to increase your ROI.

Be cynical about wholesome virtues, such as caring about one’s marriage and family, being charitable, embodying spiritual concerns and moral values, and caring about customers, employees, employers and colleagues.

Don’t make offers to contribute or help others.

Forget how important the concerns and ambitions of your listeners are to them.

Ignore the meaning, relevance and value of what you have to say to others.

Make irrelevant digressions or stray from the declared topic.

Opine -- make personal judgments without request or offering grounding.

Trivialize the contributions and work made by others.

Assume postures of already-knowing, authority, wisdom or knowledge without request or accomplishments to back up your claim.

Offer knowledge that produces unsatisfactory outcomes; don’t offer advice about how you earn $100,000 when your listeners’ ambitions are higher.

Offer “good ideas” or speculations without request that waste other peoples’ time, energy, money and opportunities.

Coach or advise without request or where you have no qualification.

Have conversations or offer insights that are “interesting”, “fascinating”, “intriguing”, “glamorous” or “clever” but unproductive and irrelevant.

Make assessments and commitments and don’t keep them or meet common, normal, average, traditional or mediocre standards when you do keep them.

Pester people with requests and offers.

Be shy, insecure, uncertain, afraid and too timid to participate fully.

Play the devils advocate for people and make them the unwanted gift of always having a negative assessment and reasons why not.

Confuse “possibilities and fantasies” with “opportunities”.

Use clichés and common business metaphors.

Be sure to share all the common sense and common knowledge you have learned over the years that everyone already knows.

Take your time.  Disregard other people’s desires for prompt, thoughtful and well-crafted responses.

Remember that you paid your fee so that you have the right to do things your way.

Ignore differentials in power because underneath it all, everyone is equal.

Always have an opinion to offer about everything and everyone.

Turn the forums into political conversations.

Take the opportunity to practice your “spin” and “bullshit”.

Make people prove they are dignified, powerful and worth your respect before you treat them that way.

All students and customers of The Aji Network are responsible for knowing and abiding by The Aji Network Forum Rules.

The rules are organized according to the three fundamental categories of rules governing action in any situation or to take care of any concern:

Category #1: What actions are required?

Category #2: What actions are allowed?

Category #3: What actions are forbidden?

Please report rule violations to The Aji Networkstaff at theajinetworkadmin@theajinetwork.com .

Anyone found in violation of the rules will have their access privileges revoked and no refunds will be given for any fees charged for participation in The Aji Network Forums.

Category #1:  Required Actions

1.  Write respectful, dignified, prompt and thoughtful responses at all times

2.  Speak and act consistently with:

Accumulating knowledge and power to fulfill your lifestyle, financial and business ambitions

Building your career

Holding highly valued leadership roles

Generating high level annual incomes

Bridging your “Annual Income Gap” and “Capital-at-Work Gap”

3.  Discuss only topics relevant to your studies with The Aji Network

4.  Report all unsolicited business offers and other rule violations to The Aji Network administration

Category #2:  Allowed Actions

1.  You may make commitments including promises, requests, assertions, assessments, declarations, complaints, apologies and offers.

2.  You may hold other participants accountable for commitments made to you or that you personally witness, but not for “reported” commitments.

3.  You may request a business offer for transaction from another student or customer of The Aji Network.

Category #3:  Forbidden Actions

1.  Announcing business offers to sell or market without an explicit request from the recipient is forbidden, although soliciting offers, or requesting someone make you an offer, is allowed.

2.  Whining, griping and ranting is forbidden  -- negative assessments without request, commitment to produce consequences or willingness to take personal responsibility

3.  Using common business metaphors to describe situations, assessments, values, principles or claims is forbidden, e.g.  “Head down, butt up”, “Thinking outside the box”, “Treading water and it’s up to my nose”

4.  Engaging in mean-spirited gossip