Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen

Dear reader, It’s been over a year now of these Sunday Letters (this was the first one). You can view the archive of past letters here. At Fusang we’ve been working on a number of exciting projects, and to make room to tell you about all of it I’ll now only be sending out this Letter once a month, on the third Sunday of every month.

You can sign up here for our coming Fusang Vault update newsletter, which will go out on the first Sunday of every month, and our Investments newsletter, which will go out on the second Sunday of every month.

Thank you for reading these letters this past year. Your comments and support have meant a great deal.

Yours Sincerely,
Henry Chong

I was recently struck by a quote from Tom Bilyeu, Founder of Quest Nutrition (makers of those Quest Bars), and current host of Impact Theory:

“You have to accept that your life as you’re living it is sub-optimal for reaching your goal.

If it wasn’t, you would have already reached your goal.”

Einstein once said that “No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” In other words, by definition, you have to think outside the box to solve any problem.

In fact, the truth that you must realise is that the box isn’t real. The box is nothing more than the limiting beliefs that others, consciously or otherwise, have foisted upon you. You have accepted their frame of reference and that is limiting you to approaching the problem from the position of “conventional wisdom”.

Instead, you must come to understand that there is no spoon. Beliefs, as William James explained, are all always relative. Indeed, one attempt to reconcile outstanding issues with quantum theory, Quantum Bayesianism (or QBism), argues that the quantum wave function is not an objective feature of nature, but rather represents the observer’s subjective degrees of belief. In other words, the quantum wave function does not describe the world – it describes the observer.

There Is No Spoon, The Matrix (1999)