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My learnings from the book: 1/ Most people around you will not believe in your success. Even if you prove it to them, they will not be ready to accept My learnings from the book: 1/ Most people around you will not believe in your success. Even if you prove it to them, they will not be ready to accept you but that's just fine. That's the price you pay for extraordinary success. You have to be happy with what you achieved. 2/ Every goal has a limit. It's only perfection that is limitless. 3/ It is pointless to share your dream with others who do not share the same dream. They will never be able to visualize what you are able to visualize from your position. 4/ The only true love is the one which leads to freedom. 5/ It's difficult to convince e people that they can be free with practice and dedication. 6/ Behind all the hatred, jealousy or evil, there lies pure and sacred beings. With practice, we must learn how to see that pure being. 7/ We don't need much help from outside if we keep finding ourselves a little more each day and approach the infinite within us. That infinite is our instructor, our torch bearer. 8/ Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. The right understanding is that we are all an image of God. ...more |
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In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains the amazing processes of life, death, and regenera
In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains the amazing processes of life, death, and regeneration he has observed in the woodland and the amazing scientific processes behind the wonders of which we are blissfully unaware. Much like human families, tree parents live together with their children, communicate with them, and support them as they grow, sharing nutrients with those who are sick or struggling and creating an ecosystem that mitigates the impact of extremes of heat and cold for the whole group. As a result of such interactions, trees in a family or community are protected and can live to be very old. In contrast, solitary trees, like street kids, have a tough time of it and in most cases die much earlier than those in a group. After having read the book page by page, I, hereby, list down 28 humbling lessons from this awesome book. These are the examples that stuck with me. These learnings are worded and appended in a way that makes it easier for most of us to understand and absorb. Here you go... 1/ Most trees of the same species growing in the same stand are connected to each other through their root systems. Nutrient exchange and helping neighbors in time of need is the rule. Forests, therefore, are super organisms with interconnections, much like ant colonies. 2/ A single tree is at the mercy of nature. But together, many trees can create an ecosystem that ensures saner environment, humidity and water at all times. In this protected environment, trees can live to be very old. 3/ Trees use scent as a mode of communication. Humans also possess a secret language of scent. 4/ Other than scent, they also possess a sense of taste, and can also communicate via roots to defend themselves against specific attacks by pests. 5/ A lot of nature independent communication among trees happen via a network of fungus attached to their root tips. 6/ Trees face competition when growing together, but that's true only for the trees of different species. Trees of the same species work as a team (through fungi in their roots) and support each other when growing together. 7/ In a jungle, out of the million flowers that bloom, hardly 1 to 2 trees finally become big enough to survive for 100+ years. Rest are eaten up by pests, and animals. 8/ A mature tree can send 130 gallons of water traversing through its branches and leaves in a single day. Water is essential for photosynthesis. But it cannot afford to find so much moisture every day in summers. Thus, it stockpiles water in winter. They learn how to conserve water and not be lavish about its use during abundance. 9/ When trees are really thirsty, they begin to scream, of course, in ultrasonic waves which humans are not capable of hearing. These waves are created via vibration of trunks. 10/ Trees collaborate with specific underground fungus to increase the reach of their roots for fetching water. Fungus also protects the tree roots from harmful attacks by other pests and fungi, and also some harmful minerals. In turn, they have to provide food to the fungus. 11/ Trees shed and generate new skin, much like humans. As trees age, wrinkles start to appear in their skin, starting from bottom. 12/ Old trees nurture and fertilize the ground for their young ones by taking help of moss which grows only on old trees. 13/ Trees, like animals, have brains, can think, decide and act. The brain is spread across the roots. It's just that it's not as fast as animals. 14/ There are more life forms in a handful of forest soil than the number of humans on this planet. More than 50 % of the forest bio mass is below the soil. A teaspoon of forest soil has many miles of fungal filaments which work and transform the soil to make it usable by the trees. 15/ A tree, through its course of life, stores about 22 tons of CO2 in its trunk, branches and roots. A part of it gets released when the tree dies but a majority is held up in the forest. 16/ But for transpiration from trees and the chain of trees from oceans until the middle of land, there would have been no rains ever in land areas just a few miles beyond the coast. Trees form a chain and move clouds from sea to the middle of land with the help of wind, of course. 17/ Trees don't allow harsh rain drops to hit the ground directly. Instead, they take the blow and feed the ground slowly so that the water doesn't run away as a stream but is slowly absorbed by the ground. 18/ Trees support a vast ecosystem even within themselves - owls, woodpeckers, beetles, ants, squirrels, fungi and the list goes on. Even the dead tree trunk go on to serve the forest ecosystem. 19/ At the top of a typical single forest tree are around 2000+ animals belonging to 250+ different species. There is a different world that each tree holds. 20/ Trees hibernate in winters by shedding leaves and going off to sleep for a few months. This shedding also aids facing storms, and helps the young ones down below get some sunlight. 21/ Trees have their own character. They behave differently in the same environmental conditions. Three trees, growing together, hibernate at different times displaying that they have their own character. 22/ Trees release anti bacterial compounds in the air. The air under a walnut tree is always devoid of mosquitoes because of the compound releases by its leaves. Thus, in a forest, the air is the cleanest and purest. 23/ The upper side of the leaf is primarily for photosynthesis while lower side of the leaf is breathing. However, some species can photosynthesize from both the sides. 24/ Trees move with the help of their seeds and depending on the climate change. If the earth is becoming warmer, trees tend to move towards the north and vice versa. 25/ When rain and lightning strikes the trees that are smooth, the smooth trees create a layer of water around their trunk. In such a case, lightening travels to the ground without impacting the tree. In case the tree outer is rough or in some trees when the water does not form a continuous string. the impact of lightning is much worse. 26/ Tree leaves clean up so much from the air, like pollution dust etc. They also absorb a lot of pollen and dust which comes up from the ground. So, the air under the trees is one of the cleanest air you can breathe on this planet. 27/ Everyday a tree releases about 29 tons of oxygen into the air per square mile of forest. An average human breathes in nearly 2 pounds of oxygen a day. This means that a tree produces a daily requirement of about 10,000 people. Every walk in the forest is like taking a shower in oxygen but only during the day. During the night, trees do not photosynthesize and they produce carbon dioxide. 28/ Trees need sleep much as the humans do. When we exposed trees to artificial light during the night, then they are more likely to die early. They need complete rest during the night. Hope these 28 humbling lessons will help shape up your thought process to some extent and help you appreciate trees much better. ...more |
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This is a 2018 book by Swedish physician, professor of international health and statistician Hans Rosling. In the book, Rosling suggests that the vast
This is a 2018 book by Swedish physician, professor of international health and statistician Hans Rosling. In the book, Rosling suggests that the vast majority of people are wrong about the state of the world. He shatters many myths that we carry about the world around us. After having read the book page by page, I, hereby, list down 35 fabulous lessons from this awesome book. These are the examples that stuck with me. I know that I need to keep practicing this learning day in and day out. These learning are worded and appended in a way that makes it easier for most of us to understand and absorb. If you are interested in reading about such learning from other all-time best-selling books, you may click here. For now, if you wish to know about 'Factfulness', and what I learned from it, here you go... 1/ Most people think that the world today is more frightening, more violent and more hopeless than it really is. In fact, the reality is dramatically opposite. We are living in one of the most peaceful times with better healthcare and technology, and least number of people in dire poverty. 2/ Its not just that the people are ignorant, it is realized that they were possessing actively wrong knowledge. 3/ Illusions do not happen in our eyes. They happen in our brains. So, the misconceptions we carry are not because of what we see but what we believe. 4/ Our quick thinking brains are craving for drama. These dramatic instincts are causing misconceptions and an overdramatic worldview. The dramatic intake needs to be controlled to get a realistic view of the world. 5/ There is not even one country in the world where child mortality rate has not come down over the last 30 years - a clear indication that we have improved as a whole to protect the health of young ones. 6/ While the world has changed for the better, the world view has not kept pace. 7/ These misconceptions exist because of the fact that human beings have a strong dramatic instinct towards binary thinking, a basic instinct to divide things into two distinct groups, with no gap in between. Humans, love to dichotomize. Good vs bad, heroes vs villains, my country vs the rest, me vs the society, and as in cricket terms, defense vs aggression. The list goes on and on. 8/ Dividing the world into two distinct divides is simple and intuitive, and also dramatic because it implies conflict – and human mind loves drama. We do this without thinking, most of the time. 9/ This gap instinct makes us imagine division where there is actually just a smooth range. 10/ The world is not “developing” vs “developed”. Between these two extremes is a vast range of countries who have moved away from developing and are not yet developed. Majority of the world today lies in this vast range, while “developing” and “developed” are two extremes. 11/ Hans goes on to create 4 levels to give a better picture of the world – Level 1 to Level 4. Level 1 is extreme poverty and Level 4 is a group of rich people. But the sweetest spot is somewhere in between these two levels where more than 85% of the worlds population reside. 12/ Any simplification of information may also be misleading, and averages are no exception. Averages can mislead by hiding a spread in a single number, especially when we compare two averages. 13/ In just 20 years, world population living in extreme poverty has dropped from 29% to 9%. 14/ Back in 1800, life expectancy was roughly 30 years anywhere in the world. That was what it had been throughout history. Don't get confused with averages. This doesn't mean that most people lived only unto 30s. It actually means that half of the deaths happened in the age group 0 to 5, and other half in the group 60 to 70. The average was thus 30. Remember that there is always a spread in averages and understanding the spread is very important. The average life expectancy today is close to 74. We, humans, have always struggled to make our families survive, and finally, we are succeeding. Time to celebrate. 15/ The misconception that the world is getting worse is very difficult to maintain if we look at the present in a historical context. 16/ The goal of higher income is not just bigger piles of money. The goal of longer lives is not just extra time. The ultimate goal is to have the freedom to do what we want. Culture, and freedom - The ultimate goals of development, can be hard to measure, but guitars per capita is a good proxy. [Recommended Read: From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom] 17/ The world is still bad. There are many serious issues to be tackled, but it's also getting better at the same time. It's bad and better. 18/ Human mind craves for drama, and media exploits this by sensationalizing bad news. Negative and positive changes are happening simultaneously in the world. Negative changes will find you via media. But for positive changes, you will have to go and find them. 19/ There is no room for facts when our minds are occupied by fear. 20/ Sum total of all fearful deaths (natural disasters, plane crashes, murders, nuclear leaks and terrorism) is less than 1% of total deaths happening each year. Still these events get enormous media attention. Not that we don't need to work on these areas, but perhaps a higher focus is needed somewhere else. 21/ In the deepest poverty, you should never do anything perfectly. If you do, you are stealing resources from where they can be better used. 22/ The world cannot be understood without numbers, and it cannot be understood with numbers alone. Though we absolutely need numbers to understand the world, we should be highly skeptical about conclusions derived from purely number crunching. 23/ One number, however big or small it may seem, can never be meaningful unless compared with something meaningful 24/ Single, standalone numbers are far less meaningful than when they are seen as rates. E.g. no. of child deaths does not give ad clear picture as child deaths per new born.(infant mortality rate). [Recommended Read: FOOPS!] 25/ Categorization is natural and important for us to function well. But, unfortunately, it can make us jump to conclusions about the whole category based on just a few, or even one, unusual example. This creates generalizations and stereotypes which are mind blockers for all kind of understanding. 26/ Majority is also a category. Majority doesn't mean All or Almost all. It could be 51% or 99% - a big difference. Go deep into data to understand the situation better. [Recommended Read: FOOPS!] 27/ Cultures, religion, nations and people are not rocks. They change. They transform - constantly. No specific culture or value can be labeled for a specific religion, or group or country since it is ever evolving for all of us. Never dismiss slow change for no change. 28/ Experts are experts but only in their fields. Outside it, they could be just average or even worse. However, they don't think so. 29/ Blaming media for misinformation is futile, because they are no better than ordinary population regarding the state of the world and where it is headed. 30/ In a tragedy, we have an instinct to find someone to blame, and rarely look in the mirror. 31/ It's usually unfair to credit or discredit one person or situation for a massive result. There are various known and unknown factors involved. [Recommended Read: A Father's Diary] 32/ Look at the systems, not people, when things go wrong. Look for causes, not villains. Similarly, in success, look for systems, not heroes. 33/ Our ability to think analytically takes a back seat when we are under time pressure, are afraid and thinking worst case scenarios. The need to act quickly only results in an even worse situation. That's the urgency instinct for you. Now or never is rarely true. Take your time. When people ask you to act immediately or repent, they are most likely resisting me to think clearly. [Recommended Read: Autobiography of A Stock] 34/ When you are called to action, sometimes the most useful action is to improve the data. 35/ When someone threatens to kill you, don't turn your back and try to run away. Stand still, look into their eyes and ask what the problem is. Regards Manoj ...more |
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Award-winning business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can
Award-winning business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. This awesome book 'The Power of Habit' explores the science behind habit creation and reformation. The book reached the best seller list for The New York Times, Amazon.com, and USA Today. It was long listed for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. After having read the book page by page, I, hereby, list down 20 powerful lessons from this awesome book. These are the examples that stuck with me. I know that I need to keep practicing this learning day in and day out. These learning are worded and appended in a way that makes it easier for most of us to understand and absorb. 1/ Habits are certain shortcuts that emerge in our brains - because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort. Once the short cut is created, then the actions happen automatically. 2/ Habits are triggered whenever a chunk of behaviour starts or ends. During the first phase, there is a trigger or a cue that tells the brain to move into habit mode and also specifies which habit to use. The second phase is routine - where everything happens automatically. Then there is the third phase of reward which tells the brain whether the habit is worth remembering for the future. Over time, the phases become more and more automated. 3/ It is the craving that drives the habit loop - cue, routine and reward. 4/ Once habits are formed, its tough to stop executing them. The mind craves for the habit and its associated reward. 5/ To speed up our habit creation, we need a cue, a routine, a reward (all a part of the habit loop) ,and additionally, a craving for the reward. e.g. to quickly create a habit for morning walk, have a cue (get up with sport shoes by the side of the bed, think about the reward (a lavish breakfast) and keep thinking about the reward, till it creates enough craving, and then follow the process. 6/ Habits never go off, but they can be changed. The rule to change an existing habit is to keep the same cue and the same reward, and change the routine. 7/ It was observed that the addicts who practiced the techniques of habit replacement as per the above philosophy stayed with the new habits, but only until a stressful event occurred in their lives, at which point most start to go back to their addiction - no matter how much they had practiced. However, those addicts who had, by this time, started to have belief in God or in themselves, could scrape through this stressful time. It wasn't precisely God, but belief itself that made the difference. Belief is what made the new habit loop absolutely permanent. 8/ Massive transformations happen in people's life when they are faced with adversity. An equal transformation can also happen when people are associated with the right social groups. Both play a vital role in upping our belief levels. 9/ Belief is easier when it occurs within a community - when people come together to help each other. 10/ There are certain keystone habits that help us establish many other habits. In real life, as an example, eating dinner with family, making your bed in the morning, going for a regular walk or exercise - these are "small wins". Once these are established as habits, they start influencing our mood, and many other habits and causes major shifts in our life. 11/ Small Wins do not have a small impact. They bring you in the habit of winning. They may not have a linear or direct relationship with your goal, but they can change your mindset to a winning mindset which is quite likely yo have a positive impact on your goal. 12/ Just writing a daily journal of the food we eat is a keystone habit, that can play in our mind to change the way we think about food, nutrition and what we should be eating. A real experiment showed that those who kept a daily journal lost twice the weight than those who did not. Same goes with tracking your expenses every day. Just the act of daily tracking is good enough to control your expenses. 13/ Willpower is the single most important keystone habit for individual success. As an example, it has been proven that self discipline (a thread of willpower keystone habit) has the biggest effect on academic performance, much higher than even intellectual talent. 14/ Willpower is not just a skill. If it was a skill, it should stay nearly the same through the day. Willpower is like a muscle, just like the muscles in your arms or legs. It gets tired as it works harder - so there is less power left as the day progresses and you use this power in various activities. That's a strong reason to justify that maximum family issues occur during the evening or night with the partners losing patience, when the willpower has mostly been consumed in the day. 15/ Once willpower becomes stronger (doesn't matter how - through regular walking, studying, financial budgeting, gyming etc.), it starts to positively impact every other field. 16/ People want to be in control of their lives. Giving employees more power to take decisions improves their self discipline enormously, rather than giving them specific set of instructions to follow the process. 17/ In most organizations, there is always a delicate balance between all departments, each head trying to defend and nurture their own departments. But in extreme cases, it should be clear that which department, or person, goal needs to take ownership and overshadow everyone else. 18/ A company with dysfunction habits cannot turn around just because a leader orders it. Wise executives seek out moment of crisis - or create the perception of crisis, which cultivates the sense among everyone that something must change. The crisis time should never be wasted. Its an opportunity when everyone is open to change. That's the time to hit the hammer. 19/ The behaviors that occur unthinkingly are the evidence of our truest selves. And these behaviors are an outcome of automated habits. 20/ With practice and patience, and going through the habit loop, any habit can be changed. Hope these 20 powerful lessons will help shape up your thought process to some extent and help you manage your life much better. ...more |
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'Make Your Bed', and what I learned from it, here you go... 1/ Start your day off by making your bed. Life is hard and sometimes there is very little w 'Make Your Bed', and what I learned from it, here you go... 1/ Start your day off by making your bed. Life is hard and sometimes there is very little we can do to affect the outcome of the day. Sometimes the simple act of making our bed can give us the lift we need to start our day. Making a bed is a 'small-win' which triggers much bigger wins as we move along the day. 2/ None of us, however strong we may think we are - physically or mentally - are immune from life's tragic moments. It takes a team of good people to get you to your destination in life. You cannot paddle the boat alone. You will burn yourself out. Find someone to share your life with. Make as many friends as you possibly can. Your success depends on others - always. 3/ Determination and grit were always more important than talent. Measure a person by the size of their heart. 4/ Life is not supposed to be fair all the time. The sooner we learn this, the better for us. It is easy to stop trying because you believe that fate is against you. Great people are defined by how they deal with life's unfairness. Even after the best of your attempts, you will fail many times. Don't complain. Don't blame anyone. Stand tall, look ahead, and drive on. 5/ In life, you will face many challenges and pay for your failures. But if you persevere and if you let the failures teach you and strengthen you, then you will be prepared to handle life's toughest situations. 6/ You may fall short of being the best, but never ever fall short of giving your best. 7/ No one is immune from mistakes. True leaders must learn from these mistakes, use these mistakes to motivate themselves to become better, and not be afraid to try again and make the next tough decision. 8/ Those who live in the fear of failure or embarrassment will never see their full potential. Without pushing our limits, we would never know what is possible in life. 9/ Courage is a remarkable quality. Without courage, others define our path forward in life. Without it, the bullies of the world rise up. 10/ At some point, we will all confront a dark moment in life, which crushes our spirit and leaves us wondering about our future. In that dark moment, reach deep inside yourself and be your very best. 11/ Each one of us could rise above the pain, the disappointment, the agony, and then be strong. We all had the ability to carry on, and not only to survive but to inspire others. 12/ Hope is the most powerful force in the universe. 13/ Quitting never makes anything easier. The quitter regrets of his decision for the rest of his life. 14/ Life is full of difficult times. But someone out there has worse than you. Hope these 14 fantastic lessons will help shape up your thought process to some extent and help you manage your life much better. ...more |
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My learnings from the book: 1/ Death is a creation of the unaware. Because if you are aware, it is life, life, and life alone - moving from one form of My learnings from the book: 1/ Death is a creation of the unaware. Because if you are aware, it is life, life, and life alone - moving from one form of existence to the other. 2/ Death is not a tragedy. People spending their entire lives without experiencing life is a tragedy. If you are afraid of death, you will fail to live, and still wont escape death anyways. 3/ Life is a joy if you are able to control your mind and health. Death is compassion because it relieves you. Life needs a certain amount of tension to continue. Death is the highest relaxation. If death doesn't come to you at the right time, you will have a miserable life. You will long for death. 4/ Inhalation is life. Exhalation is like Death. Exhalation is most relaxing. Inhalation creates an optimal tension. 5/ Don't try to avoid anything in life. Let life happen to you. Did we come here to "experience" life, or "avoid" life. The moment we try to avoid life, death starts to come closer - because that is what we are asking. 6/ There are a total of 114 chakras, 112 inside the body and 2 outside the body. Those 112 inside are categorized into 7 groups. The level of activation of chakras greatly determines the quality of life. Same way, the quality of death is characterized not just by how pranas have exited the body, but through which chakras they have exited. 7/ One of the ways to regularly cleanse yourself is to take bath in flowing water like a river. If not river, a bath every day even in your own house does a lot of good to you - makes you feel better by removing negativity. 8/ There are more rich people that commit suicide than poor. A poor person lives in hope of a better life. For the rich, there is hopelessness. And hopelessness arises because we have not learnt how to handle life and its various aspects. If life is not making enough sense to you, then it is obvious that you do not have enough sense. 9/ Nothing gives you the right to take your life, because you are not capable of creating a new life. 10/ Grief and joy are both infectious. You have to make up your mind as to what you want to infect the world with. 11/ Time for you is measured by the number of breaths and not by the clock or the number of calendar years. If we slow down our metabolism and breathe fewer times, we will live longer as per the calendar years. 12/ Its a misconception that miserable people want to die. In fact they want to cling on to life more than others. Happy people are loosely attached to life. The more miserable they are, the more they cling to everything in life. 13/ When we have to go on a long journey, we always prepare ourselves well. The journey after death is a pretty long one, especially if we compare it with our life span. Therefore preparing to die well is vital. So, ideally, we should know how to live blissfully and then leave the body in the best possible manner - without fear. 14/ Why are people afraid of dead bodies - whom they don't even know? Living bodies can be dangerous but dead bodies are absolutely safe. The fear of death is because we are ignoring the reality called as death. 15/ We get so attached to the body and talk about it as of we came with it. We did not. We gathered it starting from mothers womb and naturally, we will lose it as well. This may be my body but this is not me. I am more than the body. There are many other dimensions that our soul needs to experience other than this body. 16/ Living in this body is like a bank loan. You can take a 10 year loan, but you have to pay it back for sure. With smartness and knowledge, you can extend it to 15 or 20 years, but you have to return it in any case. 17/ Getting anxious about death will bring you closer to death anyways. 18/ Fear only means that your imagination is out of your control. In reality, there is nothing called as fear. Its just imagination, cooked up. 19/ Constantly reminding yourself that you are mortal, and you may die today can take away your fear of death. If you religiously practice this consciously, and when the time to actually die comes close, it will not be a very big deal for you. 20/ After a certain age, when one is done with responsibilities in life, one should move out of the house and get close to nature (Vanaprastha in ancient India). That is a wonderful way to live the remainder of the life and accept death, rather than continuing to live with the loved ones in hospital beds. 21/ Living your life is like a flowing river - moving with a particular goal in a direction. We decide where we want to go, what we want to do. Even if we are hungry and the food is in front of us, we may decide not to eat it at our discretion. Once you leave the body, you are like an evaporated form of water or clouds - you will flow where the wind takes you. There is no purpose, no mission, no goal. Angels, as they say, are looked up in the skies. When we die, we lose our discretion powers. 22/ In the absence of description powers, the last state while dying is vital. Because this last state can multiply manifolds after my death since we will not have discretionary powers. While alive, we can get angry and then control it. Post-death, we have no control. Thus dying well, dying in peace and happiness and satisfaction is vital, since this decides the quality of path ahead. 23/ Any experience of grief shows our own incompleteness. Otherwise, the world is perfectly complete. 24/ Letting people die gracefully is needed. We cannot latch on to people. Dying completes their cycle. Imagine the poor state of the world if we don't let people die. 25/ Life is complicated only if you are hell bent on moving the world in a particular direction. For everyone else who accept things as is, what's complicated in life? 26/ Nature is not thinking in terms of punishment or reward for your next birth. Whatever is unfulfilled within you at the time of your death, you get the kind of body that is suited to best fulfil those tendencies. Ex- if a money hoarder dies with unfulfilled desires about hoarding enough money, he may end up becoming an ant or a bee - just so that his hoarding tendencies are fulfilled. 27/ Don't waste your time and effort digging into the past lives. Make good use of the life that you have in hand right now. If you can do just that, it is more than enough. 28/ It is only the master-disciple relationship that can transcend lifetimes because this relationship is based on energy and not on needs. 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After having read the book page by page, I, hereby, list down 35 momentous lessons from this awesome book. 1/ We have a notion that if some people wil After having read the book page by page, I, hereby, list down 35 momentous lessons from this awesome book. 1/ We have a notion that if some people will get a lot of money, we will be devoid of opportunities to earn money. We think that the money is limited. This false belief about the scarcity of money drives negative behavior like greed, jealousy, and fear. Imagine if you could truly believe that there was unlimited money and that there was no hurry. 2/ Money that is used to create love and happiness is happy money. It has an extremely fast compounding rate. 3/ If you could count on money being there for you today, and also would be there for you in the future, then it is quite likely that you are living a happy and satisfying life. You may not be wealthy but you are likely to be feeling blessed. 4/ Money cannot buy happiness. Nothing can. However, it is a lot easier to be free from the anger of the past, and worries of the future, with the money by your side. 5/ Many studies reveal that person's happiness grows in direct proportion to money but only to about a million USD which roughly translates to your financial freedom. Beyond that, the correlation stops and it has to be something else that drives your happiness. 6/ Love is letting go of fear. 7/ Your happy relationship with money starts with gratitude, by being thankful for how money has served you until now, and then not being worried about the future. You will get through the way you have gotten along so far. 8/ Focus not on accumulating things but experiencing things. 9/ If you are rushing from one moment to another, one goal to another, you are missing out on the beauty of life. 10/ Sharing should be a part of every moment of life - whether you are sharing joy, grief, money, talents, or whatever. What you share doesn't matter. All that matters is that you do it - just share - with everyone you meet. The more you share, the more abundance you have in your life. 11/ What you appreciate, appreciates. 12/ Running away from fear doesn't do anything good. The only way to get over fear is to face it head-on. 13/ Kindness, generosity, and gratitude are the three fundamental traits to lead a happy as well as prosperous life. 14/ We don't have to wait until we have all the cash in the world to start living our lives. 15/ The children of happy and prosperous parents tend to do well later in life because their parents choose to spend more time with them rather than overworking for money. 16/ Our expenses have a habit of catching up with our increased incomes unless we are driven by a goal. And imagine what can happen if you do not get that income for some time. 17/ Fear, Confusion, and Anxiety are all good - indicating that you are about to try something different or now. 18/ Getting a verbal thank you for something feels great, but when we receive money or gifts from people around us, we feel even more appreciated, and we feel that they have been truly impacted positively by our actions. We feel valued. 19/ Most people have a difficult relationship with money because the way they earn and spend it is unhealthy. e.g. a lot of people work at a job they hate, and stress adds up quickly. Suffering gets embedded in the act of earning money. Every time, such money is used, feelings of stress, pain or irritation come up even without we realizing it. Even though the feelings were because of the work and not the money, but the boundaries between work and money get blurred. Money becomes equivalent to work. Spending money feels like doing more work to earn it back. Happy people earn money by doing things that bring them joy. When they spend, they feel joy and happiness, because they will have to now do what they love to earn more. 20/ Passionate and enthusiastic people attract money. 21/ Typically, when more money is coming in, then going out, we feel very good about life. This is absolutely the time in life when we should be enjoying life. All the hard work and perseverance of the past are flowing back to us as a reward. It's a sign that we are doing what we are supposed to be doing - serving people and making them happy. Some people start to feel that this will go on forever, and raise their standard of living - and then, they struggle to survive. 22/ No amount of money is going to make you happy. Happiness comes from experiences, some of which money can buy for you. So, you ought to earn more and spend more - get the money flow going. Participate in the flow. 23/ If you do not have a purposeful plan for the day, you are going to have a depressed life, even if you have achieved financial freedom. 24/ If you create enough stock (networth) and flow (income and expenses), you are quite likely to experience the joy of happy money. 25/ How people get their money - fast and easy, or slow and steady - is also how they tend to lose it. 26/ People who earn money quickly tend to lose it quickly as well because they are not prepared for it, their intellectual wealth is not able to match with their financial wealth. 27/ It's not what you do, it's how you do it. Fiding an area that you enjoy and where your skills can shine can take decades, but may still be worth it. 28/ Constantly feeling that you deserve more is a dangerous way to live your life. It's simply impossible to keep getting more forever. We need to find an equilibrium position somewhere. 29/ Thank the money when it comes in, and thank it when it flows out. Trust the flow. Trust your life. 30/ Donating money to a charity of your choice leads to a happy money flow. It gives you the confidence that you have enough. 31/ Always get some small gifts for your loved ones whenever you meet them. 32/ Whenever you are giving, give a little more than the expectations of the recipient. 33/ The families that I have seen are the happiest are the ones that are transparent with their children - on money and all other matters. 34/ Unless you believe in yourself and your gifts, no one else will. 35/ On your death bed, it is quite unlikely that you would remember money or check your bank account. All you will remember is your loved ones and the memories you created. Hope these 35 momentous lessons will help shape up your thought process to some extent and help you manage your money and life better. Hope you can change your money to Happy Money. ...more |
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This is what I learnt from the book: (1) The good, the bad and the ugly events are all a part of who I have become. (2) We cannot define where greatness This is what I learnt from the book: (1) The good, the bad and the ugly events are all a part of who I have become. (2) We cannot define where greatness begins or ends. We can only strive to become better. (3) Stop trying to impress people. Impress yourself, stretch yourself, test yourself. Be your best version. Outdoing yourself is your daily task. You are competing with your version of yesterday. (4) Self-love is all about first accepting yourself unconditionally and then making positive changes to become even better. Same way, you can love any of your family members - accept them unconditionally, and encourage them to be even better. (5) The vibrations we put out, are always pulling in stuff that is vibrating at a similar frequency - just like tuning into a radio station. So, if you consciously start feeling joyful, you will attract more of it. The common misconception is that you will start feeling good only once you have what you want. The truth is that you can feel good right now, and also attract more of it. (6) Staying around positive people, when you are down, is an excellent antidote to absorb some of their positive energy, then start radiating that positive energy yourself and thus attracting more of it from the universe. It is much easier to see the good in life when you are around positive people. (7) Smile more often. Even if you fake a smile, you can trick your brain into thinking that you are happy, and thereby releasing feel-good hormones called endorphins, which make you feel better in return. (8) Most judgments start from hatred, which is a low vibrational state. It only leads to attracting unpleasant experiences in our life. (9) Greatness starts with being grateful. In order to truly feel grateful towards any particular thing, imagine your life in its absence, as deep as you can think, and you will soon realize how grateful you truly have been. (10) Meditation is easy. It is all about listening to life - breath, sounds, colors around us at this very moment. (11) Your longest relationship in life is with your own self. If you can manage this relationship well, give it the importance it deserves, can you manage other relationships well. (12) If someone says that they are hurt by your actions, then you must believe what they are saying rather than ignore their viewpoint just because you did not feel anything hurting in what you said. It's because you have violated their personal values. Accepting that they are hurt will change your behavior to empathy. (13) All relationships require work. They require tremendous understanding and endless communication. In spite of all this, they can be very challenging. None of us is perfect. So, no relationship is perfect. (14) You will know that it is your soul talking to you when you arrive at the answer without going through the reasoning process. (15) Everyone's perspective, including our own, is limited and subjective. It is based on what we gather and process from all around us. So, be open to learning a new perspective every time you meet someone. (16) There is no way you can avoid negativity in your life. The more people you are connected with, the more negativity would be thrown at you. But no one can hurt you without your permission. The best response to negativity thrown at you is silence and joy. This will make the haters feel that they are banging against a wall that does not respond. They will hurt themselves and refrain after some time. [Recommended Book: Happiness Unlimited] (17) You cannot please everyone, neither you should even attempt it. Do not be too harsh on yourself. (18) Your purpose is not to be in a job you dislike for the rest of your life. Harmful workplaces push us into an unhealthy mental state, leading to an unhealthy physical state. (19) You won't be important to all the people all the time, and that's why you have to be important to yourself. Learn to enjoy your own company. (20) You have done things some people said you could never do. You have also done things even you thought you may never be able to do. Appreciate yourself. Pat yourself. Go out and celebrate. (21) Either way, you are going to be judged, whether you live your life on your own terms, or other people's. (22) Embrace your uniqueness. Are you considered weird? Awesome. (23) Forgive yourself for all the bad decisions you made, for the lack of belief, for hurting others and yourself. Forgive yourself for everything. Important is to move forward with a better mindset. (24) You cannot expect others to be kind to you if you are not kind to yourself. (25) When you forgive people for past mistakes, you cannot, and do not improve the past. You improve your present and future by creating positive vibes. Forgiving someone is for your better life. (26) You cannot move forward with the thoughts that hold you back. (27) Once you mute the noise of the world, you would realize that there is nothing that you cannot do. (28) If you cannot change the situation, change your perception of it. That is where your personal power is. Take charge. (29) Your job is not to get rid of negative events or negative thoughts - you cannot. Rather, your job is to improve your response to these events and thoughts. [Recommended Book: Happiness Unlimited] (30) Just one positive thought early in the day can produce a significantly different outcome by the end of the day. This is in line with the butterfly effect where butterfly flapping can cause minute weather changes, which, over time, can have a significant impact on the weather far away. (31) Repeating affirmations is like feeding coding instructions to your subconscious mind. Once the code is fed in, then the subconscious mind will run them automatically, and do anything to fructify the instructions. (32) Things are easier when you are in the mood to do them. But if you are looking for a greater life, you have to commit yourself to the same effort even when you are not in the mood. Commitment to your dreams, therefore, is the greatest virtue. [Recommended Book: Dream On] (33) Achievement of goals leads to the release of happy hormones in the body - one of which is dopamine. If you break up a bigger goal into smaller ones, then more goals are achieved as a natural bi-product of the bigger goal, leading to more dopamine release, which is good for you. (34) One glass of alcohol usually costs more than a book. Which one is more likely to change your life? People usually invest in the wrong places. [Recommended Blogpost: Why should you read books like mad?] (35) Just because you cannot see the point behind a challenging time does not mean there isn't one. The past cannot be changed, but our perception of the same can be. This belief in a good reason behind everything allows us to have a positive perspective of the past, and therefore allows us to build a positive future. (36) Some of the best changes in life result from some of the most painful experiences. Pain is good. (37) When you are praying for a situation to change, remember that you are in that situation so that you can change. Everything is connected. Everything has a reason. [Recommended Book: A Father's Diary] (38) Working 5 days a week to search for those 'free' 2 days is such a waste of life. A greater life of purpose is definitely possible. [Recommended Book: From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom] (39) Chase your excitement without any conditions. You don't need to justify what you are doing if you are excited about it. You just have to do it. If you follow your excitement, the universe will throw more exciting things at you. Eventually, your excitement will turn into your profession. (40) Make money to assist you, not to complete you. (41) There is unlimited money available. Limitation, thus, is a product of your mind. ...more |
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I, hereby, list down 43 fabulous financial lessons from this awesome book. 1/ Ordinary folks with no financial education can be wealthy if they have a I, hereby, list down 43 fabulous financial lessons from this awesome book. 1/ Ordinary folks with no financial education can be wealthy if they have a handful of behavioral skills that have nothing to do with formal measures of intelligence. 2/ Financial success, to an extent, is driven by luck irrespective of intelligence and effort 3/ Financial success is not hard science, unlike engineering or doctorate or any other profession. It is a soft skill, where how you behave is far more important than what you know. Knowledge is good but knowing what to do has nothing to do with what goes in your mind before you try to do it. 4/ All subjects are governed by defined rules - be it physics, chemistry, mathematics, or any other. Finance, however, is driven by emotions and the psychology and behavior of people. 5/ Studying the history of money makes you feel that you understand something pretty well. Once you understand you assume that you will behave according to the understanding. That's not life at all. We have a lot of knowledge but we hardly implement it in our lives. Until we have lived through those historical experiences and experienced the scars, the triumphs, the emotions, we may not understand it enough to change our behavior. 6/ Luck and Risk are both the reality that every outcome in life is guided by forces other than individual effort. They are doppelgangers. When you are in the stock market, you are one person in a game with 7 billion players and infinite moving parts. 7/ Someone else's failure is usually attributed to bad decisions, and our own failure is usually attributed to bad luck. Not all success is due to hard work and not all failures are due to laziness. Keep this in mind when judging anyone, including yourself. 8/ People who have control over their time tend to be happier in life. 9/ The hardest financial skill, and one of the most important ones, is to get the goalpost to stop moving. It gets dangerous when the taste of having more - money, power, or prestige - increases ambition faster than satisfaction. One step forward pushes the goalpost two steps ahead, and the vicious circle starts. You always feel you are falling behind in spite of achieving so much. 10/ There are certain things which are never worth taking a risk, and they define your 'enough of money' in life e.g. Character, Family and friends, freedom, being loved, happiness - to name a few. If you need or rather, greed for money makes you compromise on these, you got to re-think and define your money boundaries. A clear financial freedom plan helps you define your boundaries. 11/ Warren Buffett is a great investor, but his wealth is not just because of being a great investor. There are far better investors than him. His wealth, apart from being a great investor, is driven by the number of years for which he has been investing now - 75 years. His skill is investing but his secret is time. Of his USD 84.5 billion net worth, USD 84.2 billion was accumulated after the age of 50 ie after investing for 40+ years. That is the maximum period for which most of us would invest, and therefore we stand little chance to make it that big, unless we start pretty early in life. 12/ Good investing is not about getting very high returns. That's not replicable over many years. Good investing is about getting decent enough returns over decades. That's when compounding turns wild. 13/ Getting money, and being able to keep that money are two vastly different skills. Getting money requires action, taking risks, being positive. Keeping money requires just the opposite skills - playing safe, being fearful, and a lot of inaction. 14/ As in the case of airline pilots, investing is all about hours and hours of cruise control punctuated by moments of sheer madness. An investing genius will do ordinary things when everyone around is going crazy. 15/ Tails drive everything in finance. It's normal for a lot of things to go wrong a lot of times. No one makes good decisions all the time. Buffet has owned 400-500 stocks in his lifetime and made most of his money in at most 10 stocks. Rest was just average. 16/ We will all go right as well as wrong in our decisions. But how much money we make when we are right, and how less we lose when we are wrong - will decide our future wealth. 17/ The freedom to do what you want, when you want, with whom you want, for as long as yo want, is true freedom. This is the highest form of dividend that your money can pay you. Money's greatest intrinsic value is its ability to get you control over your time. 18/ Doing something you love on a schedule you don't want, is equivalent to doing something you hate. 19/ We, as humans, in spite of all the technological advancements have lost control over our personal time, and loss of this control is the key to unhappy lives today [Recommended Read: Happiness Unlimited] 20/ No one is impressed with your possessions as much as you are. 21/ You might think you want a big house, a fancy car, and an expensive watch. But this is not the inner truth. The fact is that you want respect and admiration. You might think that the expensive stuff may help you get respect and admiration, but it rarely does, especially from the people you want to admire or respect you. 22/ Wealth is what you do not see. House, cars, vacations, etc is not wealth. Assets, investments that have not yet been converted into houses, cars, and vacations define your wealth. 23/ Rich is the current income. Wealth is income not spent. Wealth is hard because it requires self-control. 24/ The world is full of people who look modest but are really wealthy, and also those who look rich but are almost insolvent. 25/ Building wealth has little to do with your income or investment returns but a lot to do with your savings rate. There is a lot of uncertainty and risk in the first two. 3rd is the only factor that you control. You can build wealth without a high income, but there is no way you can build wealth without a high savings rate. 26/ Being rational and technically correct may not be enough to stick in the game. It is more important to be reasonable to yourself. Being reasonable allows you to stay in the game longer, and the longer you stay, the more wealth you create. 27/ History rarely tells you anything about the future of investments, because unlike the planet for astroscientists, or the human body for doctors, investors are indeed emotional. 28/ Past surprises cannot be used as a guide to define future boundaries. Use past surprises as an admission of the fact that we have no idea what might happen next. 29/ Risk comes from the unknown. There will always be unprecedented events, for which we will never be prepared, and therefore, will have a massive impact on how the world operates. 30/ Since economies evolve, recent history is often the best guide to the future because it is more likely to factor in conditions that are still relevant today. The farther back you go in history, the more general your takeaways would be e.g. human emotions haven't changed much over the last 100 years. 31/ The best way to achieve felicity is to aim low. 32/ People are poor forecasters of their future self. Only 27% of college graduates have a job related to their major subject. Plans will change because we change. Hence, your plan has to be adaptable to changes as you move along creating wealth. 33/ The price that you pay for good investment returns is to withstand the market volatility. It is definitely not an easy price to pay. Not everyone will be able to pay for it. Most people who try to go in and come out and try to time the market is trying to get good returns without paying the price - something that never works. 34/ Bubble formation is not so much about people irrationally participating in long term investing. It's about people rationally moving towards short-term trading to capture the momentum that is self-feeding. Short term trading is rational, natural, and expected. But long term investors cannot afford to be driven with that. 35/ Spend enough time identifying your game and stick to it. And realize that different players are playing different games with a different set of rules. A lot of money is lost in trying to copy the actions of other players, resulting in financial disasters. 36/ Extremely good and extremely bad circumstances rarely remain that way for long because supply and demand adapt in hard to predict ways. 37/ Growth is driven by compounding, which can take decades, and therefore, hardly gets to be noticed. Destruction is driven by single points of failure or loss of confidence, which happens almost instantly, and grabs instant attention. 38/ We know a lot less about how the world works than what we think we do. 39/ History cannot be interpreted without applying our selection process, which happens to be an art. This indicates that the same history can teach different things to different people. The ability to explain the past gives us the illusion that the world is understandable. That's enough to do blunders in personal finance. 40/ We all want the complex world we live in to make sense, and therefore we create stories to fill in the things that we do not understand. 41/ Risk is what is left over when you think that you have thought through everything. Any predictions are illusionary. 42/ Good decisions are not always rational. At some point in time, you got to choose between being happy or being right. 43/ My investing strategy doesn't rely on picking the right sector or timing the next recession. It relies on a high savings rate, patience, and optimism that the economy would generally do well in the decades to come. Hope these 43 fabulous financial lessons will help shape up your thought process to some extent and help you manage your money better. ...more |
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Modern Homo sapiens is probably less than 10 trillion seconds old. 4/ Two strangers from opposite sides of the United States sit next to each other on a business trip to Milwaukee and discover that the wife of one of them was in the tennis camp run by an acquaintance of the other. This sort of coincidence is surprisingly common. If we assume each of the approximately 200 million adults in the United States knows about 1,500 people, and that these 1,500 people are reasonably spread out around the country, then the probability is about one in a hundred that they will have an acquaintance in common, and more than ninety-nine in a hundred that they will be linked by a chain of two intermediates. 5/ There’s always enough random success to justify almost anything to someone who wants to believe. 6/ Some would-be adviser puts a logo on some fancy stationery and sends out 32,000 letters to potential investors in a stock index. The letters tell of his company’s elaborate computer model, his financial expertise, and inside contacts. In 16,000 of these letters, he predicts the index will rise, and in the other 16,000, he predicts a decline. No matter whether the index rises or falls, a follow-up letter is sent, but only to the 16,000 people who initially received a correct ‘prediction.’ To 8,000 of them, a rise is predicted for the next week; to the other 8,000, a decline. Whatever happens now, 8,000 people will have received two correct predictions. Again, to these 8,000 people only, letters are sent concerning the index’s performance the following week: 4,000 predicting a rise; 4,000, a decline. Whatever the outcome, 4,000 people have now received three straight correct predictions. This is iterated a few more times until 500 people have received six straight correct ‘predictions.’ These 500 people are now reminded of this and told that in order to continue to receive this valuable information for the seventh week they must each contribute $500. If they all pay, that’s $250,000 for our adviser. 7/ There is a strong general tendency to filter out the bad and the failed and to focus on the good and the successful. Casinos encourage this tendency by making sure that every quarter that’s won in a slot machine causes lights to blink and makes its own little tinkle in the metal tray. Seeing all the lights and hearing all the tinkles, it’s not hard to get the impression that everyone’s winning. Losses or failures are silent. 8/ Because people usually focus upon winners and extremes whether they be in sports, the arts, or the sciences, there’s always a tendency to denigrate today’s sports figures, artists, and scientists by comparing them with extraordinary cases. A related consequence is that international news is usually worse than national news, which in turn is usually worse than state news, which is worse than local news, which is worse than the news in your particular neighborhood. 9/ Coincidences or extreme values catch the eye, but average or ‘expected’ values are generally more informative 10/ Astrology maintains that the gravitational attraction of the planets at the time of one’s birth somehow has an effect on one’s personality. This seems very difficult to swallow, for two reasons: (a) no physical or neurophysiological mechanism through which this gravitational (or another sort of) attraction is supposed to act is ever even hinted at, much less explained; and (b) the gravitational pull of the delivering obstetrician far outweighs that of the planet or planets involved. Remember that the gravitational force an object exerts on a body – say, a newborn baby – is proportional to the object’s mass but inversely proportional to the square of the distance of the object from the body – in this case, the baby. Does this mean that fat obstetricians deliver babies that have one set of personality characteristics, and skinny ones deliver babies that have quite different characteristics? These deficiencies of an astrological theory are less visible to the innumerate, who are not likely to concern themselves with mechanisms, and who are seldom interested in comparing magnitudes. 11/ Most diseases or conditions (a) improve by themselves; (b) are self-limiting; or (c) even if fatal, seldom follow a strictly downward spiral. In each case, intervention, no matter how worthless, can appear to be quite efficacious. This becomes clearer if you assume the point of view of a knowing practitioner of fraudulent medicine. To take advantage of the natural ups and downs of any disease (as well as of any placebo effect), it’s best to begin your worthless treatment when the patient is getting worse. In this way, anything that happens can more easily be attributed to your wonderful and probably expensive intervention. If the patient improves, you take credit; if he remains stable, your treatment stopped his downward course. On the other hand, if the patient worsens, the dosage or intensity of the treatment was not great enough; if he dies, he delayed too long in coming to you. In any case, the few instances in which your intervention is successful will likely be remembered (not so few, if the disease in question is self-limiting), while the vast majority of failures will be forgotten and buried. Chance provides more than enough variation to account for the sprinkling of successes that will occur with almost any treatment; indeed, it would be a miracle if there weren’t any ‘miracle cures.’ 12/ What’s wrong with the following not quite impeccable logic? We know that 36 inches = 1 yard. Therefore, 9 inches = ¼ of a yard. Since the square root of 9 is 3 and the square root of ¼ is ½, we conclude that 3 inches = ½ yard! 13/ Not being able to conclusively refute the claims does not constitute evidence for them. 14/ If you walk down the main street of a resort town any summer night, for example, and see happy people holding hands, eating ice-cream cones, laughing, etc., it’s easy to begin to think that other people are happier, more loving, more productive than you are, and so become unnecessarily despondent. Yet it is precisely on such occasions that people display their good attributes, whereas they tend to hide and become ‘invisible’ when they are depressed. We should all remember that our impressions of others are usually filtered in this way and that our sampling of people and their moods are not random. 15/ Any given individual, no matter how brilliant or rich or attractive he or she is is going to have serious shortcomings. Excessive concern with oneself makes it difficult to see this and thus can lead to depression as well as innumeracy 16/ Bad things happen periodically, and they’re going to happen to somebody. Why not 17/ Remember that rarity in itself leads to publicity, making rare events appear commonplace. Terrorist kidnappings and cyanide poisonings are given monumental coverage, with profiles of the distraught families, etc., yet the number of deaths due to smoking is roughly the equivalent of three fully loaded jumbo jets crashing each and every day of the year, more than 300,000 Americans annually. AIDS, as tragic as it is, pales in worldwide comparison to the more prosaic malaria, among other diseases. Alcohol abuse, which in this country is the direct cause of 80,000 to 100,000 deaths per year and a contributing factor in an additional 100,000 deaths, is by a variety of measures considerably more costly than drug abuse. It’s not hard to think of other examples (famines and even genocides scandalously underreported), but it’s necessary to remind ourselves of them periodically to keep our heads above the snow of media avalanches. 18/ Very intelligent people can be expected to have intelligent offspring, but in general, the offspring will not be as intelligent as the parents. A similar tendency toward the average or mean holds for the children of very short parents, who are likely to be short, but not as short as their parents. If I throw twenty darts at a target and manage to hit the bulls-eye eighteen times, the next time I throw twenty darts, I probably won’t do as well. This phenomenon leads to nonsense when people attribute the regression to the mean as due to some particular scientific law, rather than to the natural behavior of any random quantity. If a beginning pilot makes a very good landing, it’s likely that his next one will not be as impressive. Likewise, if his landing is very bumpy, then, by chance alone, his next one will likely be better. Regression to the mean is a widespread phenomenon, with instances just about everywhere you look. 19/ Judy is thirty-three, unmarried, and quite assertive. A magna cum laude graduate, she majored in political science in college and was deeply involved in campus social affairs, especially in anti-discrimination and anti-nuclear issues. Which statement is more probable? (a) Judy works as a bank teller. (b) Judy works as a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement. The answer, surprising to some, is that (a) is more probable than (b) since a single statement is always more probable than a conjunction of two statements. That I will get heads when I flip this coin is more probable than that I will get heads when I flip this coin and get a 6 when I roll that die. 20/ We find that detail and vividness vary inversely with likelihood; the more vivid details there are to a story, the less likely the story is to be true 21/ Choose between a sure $30,000 or an 80 percent chance of winning $40,000 and a 20 percent chance of winning nothing. Most people will take the $30,000 even though the average expected gain in the latter choice is $32,000 (40,000 × .8). What if the choices are either a sure loss of $30,000 or an 80 percent chance of losing $40,000 and a 20 percent chance of losing nothing? Here most people will take the chance of losing $40,000 in order to have a chance of avoiding any loss, even though the average expected loss in the latter choice is $32,000 (40,000 × .8). Tversky and Kahneman concluded that people tend to avoid risk when seeking gains, but choose risk to avoid losses. 22/ An item whose price has been increased by 50 percent and then reduced by 50 percent has had a net reduction in price of 25 percent. A dress whose price has been ‘slashed’ 40 percent and then another 40 percent has been reduced in price by 64 percent, not 80 percent. The new toothpaste which reduces cavities by 200 percent is presumably capable of removing all of one’s cavities twice over, maybe once by filling them and once again by placing little bumps on the teeth where they used to be. The 200 percent figure, if it means anything at all, might indicate that the new toothpaste reduces cavities by, say 30 percent, compared to some standard toothpaste’s reduction of cavities by 10 percent (the 30 percent reduction being a 200 percent increase of the 10 percent reduction). The latter phrasing, while less misleading, is also less impressive, which explains why it isn’t used. The simple expedient of always asking oneself: ‘Percentage of what?’ is a good one to adopt. If profits are 12 percent, for example, is this 12 percent of costs, of sales, of last year’s profits, or of what? 23/ According to government figures released in 1980, women earn 59 percent of what men do. Though it’s been quoted widely since then, the statistic isn’t strong enough to support the burden placed on it Without further detailed data not included in the study, it’s not clear what conclusions are warranted. Does the figure mean that for exactly the same jobs that men perform, women earn 59 percent of the men’s salaries? Does the figure take into account the increasing number of women in the workforce, and their age and experience? Does it take into account the relatively low-paying jobs many women have (clerical, teaching, nursing, etc.)? Does it take into account the fact that the husband’s job generally determines where a married couple will live? Does it take into account the higher percentage of women working toward a short-term goal? The answer to all these questions is no. The bald figure released merely stated that the median income of full-time women workers was 59 percent of that for men. 24/ If each of the ten items needed for the manufacture of something or other has risen 8 percent, the total price has risen just 8 percent, not 80 percent. As I mentioned, a misguided local weathercaster once reported that there was a 50 percent chance of rain on Saturday and a 50 percent chance on Sunday, and so, he concluded, ‘it looks like a 100 percent chance of rain this weekend.’ Another weathercaster announced that it was going to be twice as warm the next day since the temperature would rise from 25 to 50. ...more |
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Thought-Provoking Life Lessons from the Book 1/ Decades of work from multiple different subfields within psychology all point toward the conclusion tha Thought-Provoking Life Lessons from the Book 1/ Decades of work from multiple different subfields within psychology all point toward the conclusion that regularly resting your brain improves the quality of your deep work. When you work, work hard. When you’re done, be done. 2/ For many types of work—especially when pursuing innovation—collaborative deep work can yield better results. 3/ Distraction remains a destroyer of depth. Therefore, the hub-and-spoke model provides a crucial template. Separate your pursuit of serendipitous encounters from your efforts to think deeply and build on these inspirations. You should try to optimize each effort separately, as opposed to mixing them together into a sludge that impedes both goals. 4/ Spending time in nature can improve your ability to concentrate. This resource is finite: If you exhaust it, you’ll struggle to concentrate. 5/ When walking through nature, you’re freed from having to direct your attention, as there are few challenges to navigate (like crowded street crossings), and experience enough interesting stimuli to keep your mind sufficiently occupied to avoid the need to actively aim your attention. 6/ If you simply stop whatever you are doing at five p.m. and declare, “I’m done with work until tomorrow,” you’ll likely struggle to keep your mind clear of professional issues, as the many obligations left unresolved in your mind will keep battling for your attention throughout the evening (a battle that they’ll often win). 7/ Great creative minds think like artists but work like accountants. 8/ By supporting deep work with rock-solid routines that make sure a little bit gets done on a regular basis, the rhythmic scheduler will often log a larger total number of deep hours per year. 9/ The five most common desires that a deep worker fights against include, not surprisingly, eating, sleeping, and sex. But the top five list also included desires for “taking a break from [hard] work … checking e-mail and social networking sites, surfing the web, listening to music, or watching television. 10/ You can expect to be bombarded with the desire to do anything but work deeply throughout the day, and if you’re like the German subjects from the Hofmann and Baumeister study, these competing desires will often win out. 11/ You have a finite amount of willpower that becomes depleted as you use it. Your will, in other words, is not a manifestation of your character that you can deploy without limit; it’s instead like a muscle that tires. 12/ The key to developing a deep work habit is to move beyond good intentions and add routines and rituals to your working life designed to minimize the amount of your limited willpower necessary to transition into and maintain a state of unbroken concentration. 13/ You don’t need a rarified job; you need instead a rarified approach to your work. 14/ Deep life is not just economically lucrative, but also a life well lived. 15/ Skillful management of attention is the sine qua non of the good life and the key to improving virtually every aspect of your experience. 16/ This concept upends the way most people think about their subjective experience of life. We tend to place a lot of emphasis on our circumstances, assuming that what happens to us (or fails to happen) determines how we feel. Who you are, what you think, feel, and do, what you love—is the sum of what you focus on. 17/ The advantage of cultivating concentration so intense is that there is no attention left over to think about anything irrelevant, or to worry about problems. 18/ If it’s high-tech, we began to instead assume, then it’s good. In most cases, it is actually not. 19/ Most people assumed (and still do) that relaxation makes them happy. Human beings, it seems, are at their best when immersed deeply in something challenging. The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile. 20/ Big trends in business today actively decrease people’s ability to perform deep work, even though the benefits promised by these trends (e.g., increased serendipity, faster responses to requests, and more exposure) are arguably dwarfed by the benefits that flow from a commitment to deep work (e.g., the ability to learn hard things fast and produce at an elite level). 21/ High-Quality Work Produced = (Time Spent) x (Intensity of Focus). 22/ When you switch from Task A to another Task B, your attention doesn’t immediately follow—a residue of your attention remains stuck thinking about the original task. The concept of attention residue helps explain why the intensity formula is true. 23/ Deliberate practice cannot exist alongside distraction, and that it instead requires uninterrupted concentration. 24/ To learn hard things quickly, you must focus intensely without distraction. 25/ To learn, in other words, is an act of deep work. If you’re comfortable going deep, you’ll be comfortable mastering the increasingly complex systems and skills needed to thrive. Hope these deep lessons will help shape up your thought process to some extent and help you lead a better life. ...more |
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I, hereby, list down the 26 inspirational lessons that i learnt from this awesome book. I know that I need to keep practicing these learning day in and day out. These learning are worded and appended in a way that makes it easier for most of us to understand and absorb... Thought Provoking Life Lessons from the Book 1/ A wise person should not ignore life's pleasures, but should always remain conscious of how easy it is to be enslaved by them. You have to be prepared for those pleasures disappearing in no time. 2/ Present is all that exists, and is the only thing that we can control. 3/ Things that we love are like the leaves of a tree. They can fall any moment with a gust of wind. Everything that we have, and everyone we love will disappear at some point. We have to be mindful of this, without being pessimistic about it. It should help us love the present moment and those who surround us in this moment. Keeping this in mind helps helps us avoid excessive pain in times of loss. 4/ There is no perfect strategy to connecting with our Ikigai. Don't worry too much about finding it. Life is not a problem to be solved. Just be busy with what you love, at the same time being surrounded by people who love you. 5/ We don't create the meaning of our life, we discover it. 6/ We each have a unique reason for being, which can be adjusted or transformed many times over the years. Daily Health Habits - Secrets to long life from Super centenarians (110+ age) Japan has the highest life expectancy in the world. Okinawa has the highest life expectancy in Japan, and it is remarkable considering the fact that it was one of the worst affected provinces after WW/II. 1/ Japanese stop eating when their stomachs are 80% full. 2/ Just like exercising for the body is important, exercising for brain is also important. Otherwise, it can stagnate and go out of shape. In fact, the brain needs a lot more stimulation to stay in shape. As you get habitual of things, the brain develops neuronic bridges that can do things automatically for you, just like learning to drive a car. When this happens, it doesn't need to think anymore, unless it confronts with new information. It is like a person just eating and doing no exercise. That is why it is so important to expose yourself to change, even if it means stepping out of your comfort zone and feeling anxious. Dealing with new situations, learning something new everyday, playing games, and interacting with others seem to be effective anti aging strategies for mind. 3/ Stress is a proven killer. So, while challenges are good for keeping mind and body active, we should adjust our high stress life styles to avoid premature ageing. 4/ While sustained, intense stress is a known enemy, low levels of intermediate stress have been shown to be beneficial. People who maintained low levels of stress, faced challenges and put their soul into their work lived longer than those who chose a more relaxed lifestyle. Financial Freedom gives you an opportunity, not to retire and relax, but to burn yourself in things that you love doing. 5/ Relax. Slow down a little. Eat and Sleep well. Everything is fine. Life is a marathon, not a 100 m sprint. 6/ Keep your mind and body busy. 7/ People with clear purpose never retire and continue in their area of passion till their last breath. 8/ If you want to stay busy (one secret to longevity) when there's no need to work, there has to be an Ikigai on your horizon, a purpose that guides you throughout your life and pushes you to make things of beauty and utility for the community and yourself. 9/ Smile. Say hello to people. 10/ Work very hard, but on your ikigai. Working hard doesn't mean you have to take it too seriously. Effort is important, not the result. You have to enjoy what you do. 11/ Spend your morning in your vegetable garden. 100% of interviewed super centenarians kept a vegetable garden. 12/ Do many different things every day. Always stay busy, but do one thing at a time without getting overwhelmed. Not even one of the interviewed person was ever seen doing nothing. 13/ Celebrate little things. 14/ People who live the longest are not the ones who do most exercises but the ones who move the most. Metabolism slows down 90% after 30 minutes of sitting. After 2 hours, good cholesterol drops 20%. Just getting up for 5 minutes is going to get things moving. Eating Habits - Secrets to long life from Super centenarians (110+ age) 1/ Eat a bit of everything. Variety is key. Eat a wide variety of foods, especially vegetables 2/ Okinawa people rarely eat sugar, and even if they have to, its cane sugar. No sweets or chocolates. 3/ They have extremely low salt intakes. - less than 10 g of salt per day. 4/ Eat less than you feel the urge for. This saves significant energy consumed in digestion. Even more efficient is the 5:2 diet, means eat regular for 5 days and fast for 2 days. This allows the digestive system some rest as well. 5/ Jasmine tea (green tea with jasmine) or white tea is the best for reducing blood cholesterol levels and fights free radicals. 6/ Eat lot of citrus fruits. They have chemicals which prevent cancer, diabetes and obesity. Interesting Discoveries from the book 1/ Wabi Sabi It is a Japanese concept that shows us the beauty of fleeting, changeable and imperfect nature of the world around us. Beauty can be found in things that are flawed and incomplete. In fact, the Japanese believe that such things resemble the natural world more closely and hence must be valued. It is quite opposite to the western way of thinking which strives for perfection in everything. 2/ Ichi-go ichi-e It is another Japanese concept which can be translated as 'This moment exists only now and won't come again'. A deeper understanding and appreciation of every moment can help us lead a happier life. 3/ Anti-fragility Fragile gets weakened when harmed. Resilient or robust resist the shock and stay the same. Anti fragile gets better when harmed. Fighting for financial freedom adds anti fragility to your financial life. By adopting an anti fragile attitude, we start to love setbacks, because each setback is an opportunity to grow. We find a way to get stronger with every blow, staying focused on our ikigai. 4/ Logo therapy This was popularised by Victor Frankl and it essentially is a philosophy which helps you find reasons to live. He believed that everything can be taken from a human but one thing - the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given situation 5/ Flow It is a state in which one is so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter. The experience itself is so enjoyable that people would do it for the sheer sake of doing it. To achieve flow: a) Choose a moderately difficult task, b) Have a clear objective, c) Concentrate on a single task at a time. Human brain cannot multi task. We feel we can do so but what is actually happening is that we are switching between many tasks very frequently. This drains energy. ...more |
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Everyone interested to invest in the enigmatic world of Stock investing must read this book because: 1. New Innovations The book incorporates 8 (Eight) Everyone interested to invest in the enigmatic world of Stock investing must read this book because: 1. New Innovations The book incorporates 8 (Eight) new Innovations - formulas and techniques. These are a first of a kind in stock market arena. We need to get them copyrighted though. 2. Everything is Real The book is jeweled with real examples, real numbers, and real stock situations - right out of my own portfolio. There is nothing assumed about the stock investment process. The process works and works practically. 3. Experience Matters The crux of my 20+ years of experience in the stock market, as well as 45 years of life experience, has been stitched in a beautifully crafted story form. 4. Learning Stocks via a story The story format of stock learning is also first of a kind - where a stock writes its own biography and in the process, teaches how humans usually handle a stock and what is the right process to do so. 5.Simple is Powerful The lucid language and a simple story with real life examples are absolutely easy to understand and grasp. This will be, perhaps, the first book on stocks depicted in a simple story form - making finance easier than ever before. 6. The Lessons There are 83 unforgettable lessons - each one supported with real data and real examples. 7. A Cohesive Strength This book will form a cohesive combination with my first book (From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom), which is already a bestseller ! ...more |
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This is what I learnt from the book: 1/ It is difficult to love people who see everything as only black or white... More so when they themselves decide This is what I learnt from the book: 1/ It is difficult to love people who see everything as only black or white... More so when they themselves decide what is black and white. 2/ Children are not your coloring books that you fill them up with your favourite colours. 3/ If you have some talent and you don't hone it, you are being a hindrance in God's mission. 4/ We often do mistakes, and big ones - including betraying someone's trust. Good people feel the guilt of those mistakes. To overcompensate for the guilt, they do great work. True redemption is therefore, when guilt leads to good. In the end, God will forgive everyone. 5/ It's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better and because bad people also can become good. But when they are doing bad,you have to stand up to them. ...more |
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1. One who pursues a goal of even mindedness is neither jubilant with gain nor depressed by loss. He knows that'll man arrives and departs penniless.
1. One who pursues a goal of even mindedness is neither jubilant with gain nor depressed by loss. He knows that'll man arrives and departs penniless. 2. Plants have a sensitive nervous system and a varied emotional life. Not only plants, the life force in metals like tin respond positively or negatively to a stimulus. 3. Distinctions of important and unimportant are unknown to the Lord. 4. Never believe that you live by the power of the food and not by the power of God. Money, food and everything else are merely his instruments to sustain your life...only as long as he wants to. 5. How short is human memory for divine favours. 6. Attachment is blinding 7. Good and sensitive suggestions should instruct the sensitive ears of children. Their early ideas long remain sharply etched. 8. Be comfortable within your purse. Extravagance will bring you discomfort. 9. It is true that a man incurs the debt of a minor sin if he is forced to kill an animal or any other living being. But man's body is considered more precious than any of the other lower forms because of unique evolutionary value owing to its unique brain and spinal centers. No lower form is so equipped. 8. Thought is a force, even as gravitation or electric. 9. A guru does not accept a disciple's help unless it is offered cheerfully. 10. Imagination is the door through which disease and healing enters our body. Disbelieve in the reality of sickness even when you are ill, the unrecognized visitor will just flee away. A subtle spiritual structure is hidden behind the bodily mechanism. 11. Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead body. Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife - effective but unpleasant. Candour with courtesy is helpful and admirable. 12. So long as you breathe the free air of Earth, you are under obligation to render grateful service. 13. The hard core of egotism is difficult to dislodge except rudely. 14. A worthy leader has the desire to serve, not to dominate. 15. Just as hunger, not greed, has a legitimate purpose - so the sexual instinct has been implanted by nature solely for the propagation of species. 16. Be softer than the flower where kindness is concerned, stronger than the thunder where principles are at stake. 17. Strive for a two fold existence. The soul must stretch over to have cosmic experiences, while the body must perform its daily duties. 18. Thoughts are vibrations in the space. A trained mind can receive the desired thoughts broadcasted by others, and also broadcast the thoughts - guided towards a specific person - by sheer will. 19. None other than the man is the instigator of the causes of whatever effects are now prevelant in his life. 20. The wise man defeats his planets i.e. his past by transferring his allegiance from the creation to the creator. The more he realizes his unity with the spirit, the less he can be dominated by the matter. 21. Man is a soul and has a body. 22. A master willingly sacrifices a portion of his bodily wealth to lighten the misery of his disciples, by even a taking a disease onto the himself , thus canceling the effect of some of their bad karma. By putting on the ailments of others, a yogi can satisfy, for them, the karmic law of the cause and effect. 23. If you don't invite God to be your summer guest, he won't come in the winter of your life. 24. God does not reveal himself to a seeker who is satisfied with any lesser attainment. 25. Those who habitually speak the truth develop the power of materializing their words. Truth is God. Man usually puts his trust in tangibles. When a person comes for healing, a Guru may advise them to wear a bangle etc.. These bangles and jewels, in addition to their electromagnetic healing potencies, also diverts attention from Guru.. thus avoiding the deadly ego. 26. Science is fit indeed to discover, and keep discovering the laws of already existing cosmos but powerless to detect the law framer. 27. Maya is duality. Rise and fall, day and night, pleasure and pain, good and bad evil, birth and death. It is the very fabric of creation. Electrons and Protons, action and Reaction,north and south.. Everything is dual. To rise above the duality of this physical outer world and seek the unity of creator inside us is one of the biggest objectives of human race... Something that they realise after wasting many thousand births in this duality of maya. 28. Great saints can do as they wish with their bodies, knowing it to be a manipulatable form of condensed energy. 29. Lord Shiva is spirituality designated as the king of yogis. 30. On occasions, an avataar may not caste any shadow or make any footprint on the ground. 31. The one who faithfully discharges his responsibilities, without personal motive or attachments, treads the sure path of enlightenment. Liberation is dependent on inner, rather than outer, renunciations. 32. Everything on earth is of mixed character. Like a mixture of sand and sugar. Be like a wise ant, that seizes only the sugar, and completely ignores the sand. 33. The mere presence of a body signifies that it's existence in made possible by unfulfilled desires. 34. Best human endeavour is of no effect if it has not God's blessings behind it. No effort is complete without prayer. It is a call to humility. 35. A man who has reformed himself will reform thousands. 36. Breath serves as the subtle link between body and soul. The flesh of a man could never carry on any activity or manifest energy, were it not for the life currents transmitted by soul to body via our breath. 37. Man's conscious state is an awareness of body and breath. His subconscious state, in sleep, is temporary separation from body and breath. His super conscious state is a freedom from the delusion that existence depends on body and breath. 38. God lives without breath. The soul made in His image becomes conscious of itself, for the first time only during the breathless state. 39. Life by life, each man progresses at his own pace, be it ever so erratic. 40. Every spiritual mystery will ultimately solved for the devotee by God himself. The final mysteries of God are not open to discussion. He who knows tells it not. He who tells knows it not. Lord alone is the teacher. 41. Spiritual truth, as with any other truth, belongs to the Lord, and not to India or any other country. ...more |
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I, hereby, list down my Top 15 learnings from this awesome book. These learnings are worded and appended in a way that makes it easier for most of us
I, hereby, list down my Top 15 learnings from this awesome book. These learnings are worded and appended in a way that makes it easier for most of us to understand and absorb. If you are interested in reading about such learnings from other all time best selling books, you may visit http://elevate-your-life.blogspot.in/... So, here we go with our 15 greatest lessons from this book that influenced me immensely. 1/ A human is not a being; he is a becoming. He is an ongoing process – a possibility. If there is any limit to what we can achieve and become, to the possibilities in life - that limit is created by us and no one else. Our mind is as powerful as we think it is. [ Recommended Book --> 'Dream' On by Manoj Arora] 2/ Right now, your idea of who you are – your sense and experience of who you are – is very strong. You are here as an individual, but what the trees exhale, you inhale, and what you exhale, they inhale. Or in other words, one half of your lung is hanging up there. Without it, your lungs within would be dysfunctional. Yet, in your experience, you think this individual is everything. As an individual, we cannot achieve much- rather it is difficult to survive beyond a few seconds. If we are so dependent on the world around us, then there is no place for ego and self centeraism in case 'you' achieved anything. 3/ Reading a book to know about yourself is silly. You are here, alive and kicking! It is alright if you are reading a book to get inspired to take a step inward, but if you want to know something, you must look inward. The entire knowledge of the universe is zipped inside you. You may look out for some specific information,but this informationis useful only if you have visualised it inside, connected it inside to some thoughts, beliefs qand actions in life. The power will come from experience the outside information inside. 4/ What about your system? This is the gadget. Every damn gadget has come out of this. What percentage of this gadget do you think you are employing? It is well below one percent, because for your survival process, to conduct your life in the material world, you do not even need one percent of your system’s potential. Your body is capable of perceiving the whole cosmos. We are much more powerful than anything outside us. Survival is not what we are here for. That is extreme underutilisation of our capabilities. 5/ Any animal in nature – whether a worm, insect, bird or animal – is made far more capable than you. The human body has come with a different capability altogether. 6/ Most human beings instead of looking beyond the needs of survival, have just raised their standards of survival. We are raising the bar, but it is still only survival. This is an unintelligent way of using the human mechanism which has come with a different possibility altogether. 7/ The quality of your life is decided not by what kind of clothes you wear, what kind of car you drive or what kind of home you live in, but by how peaceful and joyful you are within yourself. This is essentially the quality of your life. Everything else is done to get there. If this does not happen, everything else goes waste. Happy and Peaceful life for our own self is the end purpose (the root cause) of everything that we do - be it helping others, taking care of our families, charity, social work, building a great career. In the end, we are only looking for experiencing and sharing happiness. 8/ Where the receptivity is in your hand and where the giving nature of the feet is – if these two things are connected – you may achieve in a moment what you cannot achieve in years of sadhana. It is with that hope that everybody is diving for the feet all the time, hoping that somewhere they may connect. Hands are for reception and feet are for giving. That is how these sense organs have been designed. This is also where the age old Indian tradition of touching your elder's feet find its unique relevance. You are trying to recieve something extraordinary from someone. 9/ Temples were never built as places of worship or prayer. In a temple, nobody leads you in prayer as it is done in a church; you are just left alone. You are supposed to sit there, that is all. These were energy centers which handle that dimension of the impact on your life which comes from the outside. 10/ Health is not the goal of life. There are more people on this planet healthy and miserable than unhealthy and miserable. At least if you are unhealthy, you have a good excuse for your misery. Health and misery, you have no excuse Health is important, very important - but it can never be the goal or the purpose of your life. Just like money, it acts a means to achieve your end objectives. At the end of your life, you will leave both your health and your money but your mission could be carried on by the next generation. 11/ The air that you breathe, the water that you drink, the food that you eat, the land that you walk upon, and the fire of life in the form of the life force –if you keep these controlled and focused, then health, wellbeing and success in the world are assured. 12/ As a little blade of grass has shot out of the earth, you are also like that – a little mobile, that’s all. 13/ Smear the earth upon the body. By just being in touch with the earth, the system will start reorganizing itself. The body is reminded of its own nature in a very fundamental way, and that reminder must be on all the time. Get off your high cot, just sleep on the floor. You can clearly notice that there will be a great sense of health in your body. in the first one-and-a-half feet from the Earth, the thickness of the pranic vibration is a lot more than it is above. As it goes up, it becomes thinner and thinner. Stay grounded and down to the earth - literally :) 14/ In today’s water supply system, water is pumped forcefully through a pipe, and it may take fifty bends before coming to your tap. By the time the water lands in your house, they are saying that sixty percent of it will be poisonous –not chemically, but because its molecular structure will have changed. It may not be contaminated the way you normally look at it in terms of bacteria, but just the force of travel is making the molecular structure change in such a way that it is no longer beneficial, perhaps even poisonous. If you hold this water in a copper vessel and keep it there for ten or twelve hours, the damage will undo itself. Step by step, we must keep improving. Atleast in our house, we have taken a step to drink overnight stored water from an earthen pot. We do not keep water in our refrigerator and never drink it directly from the tap. When you come to our house as a guest, this is what we will offer you as well. 15/ If with just a thought or a look, you can turn the water in a vessel sweet, then with the right kind of attitude, focus, and attention towards it, can’t you turn sweet the water in this vessel of the body? If you turn that water sweet, you are seventy-two percent sweet. Positive vibrations, thoughts and our subconcious mind can act wonders. We can charge the water we drink, and if we are 75% water - then a lot of positive energy is likely to go inside us. As it is said, our thoughts create our destiny. Cheers ...more |
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"It is not over until you Win" by Les Brown is a book that lists down some of the success principles which may not really be new in success literature
"It is not over until you Win" by Les Brown is a book that lists down some of the success principles which may not really be new in success literature, but what makes this book unique is the uniqueness of his story and presentation of success principles in a rather refreshing manner. I, hereby, list down the 14 of my learnings from this epic book. These learnings are worded and appended in a way that makes it easier for most of us to understand and absorb. So, here we go with the list of 14 of my Book Lessons from this book that influenced me immensely. (1) It is important to enjoy those times when life smiles at you. Do not spend all your time planning for the next goal, rather do spend time to enjoy some of the milestones that you have already achieved. (2) Nobody has all the answers all the time but there is always a way. You got to believe in the fact that if there is a problem, there has to be a solution. It may take time, effort and energy to discover it, but the fact that there is a solution, should never make you lose hope. (3) You are always more powerful than the conditions that surround you. There is immense power in you. You are HIS creation, and how can HIS creation be weak or fragile? You must believe in your enormous potential, and leave a lasting impression around the world. (4) If you risk your life staying in a zone which is comfortable and secure, you may regret not exposing your talent to the world. If you truly believe that your potential is enormous, the only next thing that is going to stop you is the lack of ability to come out of your comfort zone. (5) Fear death, if you want to, but don't fear life. Learn to live before you die. Each one of us have the same beginning and the same end. It is the journey inbetween that we can script our own. (6) Be careful what you dream and expect. You might just get it, or it may get you. Your thoughts and dreams are energy. They are transmitted to this Universe, and they come back to you in the form of your destiny. (7) Leave it to the woman you love, to remind you of your Values and the person you are. That is why a woman can never be the same as a man. She has some unique abilities, wisdom and talent that a man is not designed to possess. You must trust your Intellectual Companion to show you the right way in the direction of your values. (8) The only person who can potentially stop you from achieving your dreams is the person standing in your shoes. What you get in life is what you subconsciously you believe you deserve. Your conversations and self talk with yourself holds the key. Your self confidence in your own abilities will define where you end up. (9) Time just sneaks away before you can get a sense of how much has already sneaked. If you have unfulfilled dreams, write them down and go after them right away, with a sense of urgency. Time happens to be your biggest asset in life. If you are spending your time on the things that you do not love to do, you are just wasting your life. In fact, time is the only currency. (10) To reach success, you have to pass failure. It is OK to try and fail rather than not trying at all. Failures add meaning, texture and value to our success. Not only that, failure is critical and mandatory for success. You got to prepare yourself, and failure is what will teach you and prepares you for success. Each setback and failure is a little nudge from HIM to Dream On. (11) Momentum while chasing your dream is vital. It opens up enormous unseen opportunities. There has to be an urgency to succeed. Your generated momentum will help you overcome many obstacles which you would otherwise find more difficult to overcome or will spend more than the required time and energy to do so. (12) You have to push at the edges constantly because you never know when life would give in a little and open up new opportunities for you. Coming out of your comfort zone involves trying new things, and making yourself push hard and become uncomfortable. But you gotta keep doing that to explore beautiful new destinations for yourself. ...more |
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(1) After your basic needs are met, Money does not matter until you have found meaning in your life (2) Measure your life by purpose accomplished rathe (1) After your basic needs are met, Money does not matter until you have found meaning in your life (2) Measure your life by purpose accomplished rather than profit accumulated (3) With hard work and persistence, after leaving the herd, massive selfish transformation is possible. (4) Haven't found your purpose yet? Have patience. It exists and hasn't yet been fulfilled. (5) Listening intensely is a far more value adding skill than speaking immensely. (6) When your faith is tested, you have to believe that there will be light ahead and continue moving forward. (7) Our life, with all its luxuries, is a result of sacrifices by our past generations. We owe so much to them and to the world around us. (8) A common need that spreads across cultures and countries, among wealthy and the poorest is the need for proper education for their children (9) The biggest of dreams often start with the smallest of asks (10) You can start something big no matter how small you begin (11) Friends are the family you choose (12) Speak the language of the person you want to become (13) The statements from others that your mission is impossible is one of the surest ways to unite your team into a rebellious outfit that can go on to prove everyone wrong. (14) Find one person from the audience whose lit up the most listening to you. If you can motivate just 1 person in a room in every session, that's enough to create a revolution. (15) You never realize the value of something until you face the prospect of losing it (16) When you are a part of something that you truly cherish, you have to defend it against many outside distractions and temptations. Whenever faces with competing opportunities, always be guided by your Values rather than perceived necessities (17) If you want to be realistic, go somewhere else. This is a place for dreamers (18) Creating something new is easy. Creating something that lasts is the challenge (19) What seems like overnight success actually takes years of hard work, toil, persistence, setbacks, failures and lots and lots of learning (20) Value every rupee you earn. Value every rupee you spend even more (21) In trying to protect the interests of an organization, never undermine the interest of the employees. They are the organization. (22) We all make mistakes. It's the weak who make excuses too. (23) Failure is a necessary step before achievement. In fact, it often accelerates it. Biggest opportunities are not found in the midst of success but in the methods through which we address failure. (24) Make the smaller decisions with your head and the bigger ones with your heart. (25) Change your words to change your worth (26) You may be safe but I am free (27) No one likes someone who is one dimensional (28) Be a great speaker. Be a greater listener (29) If you want to go faster, go alone. If you want to go farther, go along with some one (30) The difference between good leaders and great leaders is in the detail. (31) Establish or adopt a system where nothing falls through the cracks. Every follow up or response is critical. (32) The hardest climbs are the ones that yield the most rewards (33) I wasn't this serious about my goals initially. But the more people doubted me, the more committed I became. (34) The sexiest part of our body is our brain. (35) Lack of access to education is not just a concern but a crime (36) If your dreams don't scare you, they are not big enough. (37) Organisation growth is rarely linear. You can't look at the past to determine the future. (38) The single most important factor for a youth is that they don't have the experience to know what is not possible. Your life should be a story that you are excited to share (39) The most direct route to Happiness is to create something for someone else. (40) Inside every single person lies an extraordinary story waiting to unfold ...more |
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1/ Do something in this lifetime that no one has ever done before. That is how he made his goal to be the best Olympian ever. Dream big. Learn from new 1/ Do something in this lifetime that no one has ever done before. That is how he made his goal to be the best Olympian ever. Dream big. Learn from new obstacles and challenges. Transform yourself. 2/ When I was in school, a teacher said that I would never be successful. Things like these stick, and then motivate you. Yes, they do. Negativity around you can push you into a corner OR can pull you out of your comfort zone to break the shackles and write your own destiny. It all depends on how you tackle the power of this negative energy. 3/ Nothing is impossible, and because nothing is impossible, you need to dream big dreams. What you achieve is decided by the size of your dreams. Keep no inhibitions in your mind. Dream big, because nothing is impossible. Nothing is unattainable. You need to break the imaginary wall of excuses that you have created around yourself. Ask "Why Not" more often to yourself. Challenge your abilities. 4/ The will to succeed is everything. 5/ In a weird way, my broken leg gave me a sense of urgency which later on proved to be a big positive for me. A setback usually comes with a negative mask but is usually there in your life to transform you, provided you are willing to learn and accept the fact that it is mandatory for you to face setbacks, if you have to elevate yourself. Every setback is a little nudge from GOD for you to Dream On higher in life. It is only after you have transformed, and you look back at your life in retrospect, that you realise the importance of those setbacks in your life. 6/ You can't Dream up confidence or self belief. Confidence is born of demonstrated ability. To gain confidence, action - rigorous action - is mandatory. You have to be on the ground and try it out. Once you have achieved or are close to achieving or are improving, you start getting confident about yourself and your abilities. There is no other way. There is absolutely no other short cut. Your ability has to be demonstrated on the ground. You just cannot acquire confidence via mere visualisation or dreaming big or reading about successful people. 7/ I never ever train against other people. I train myself to win against the clock. I never aimed to be the best athlete ever. I always aimed to be the best athlete I could be Competing with others is a sure shot recipe to create stress for yourself, and also to put a limit to your potential. You can enjoy a blissful life with achievements far exceeding anyone else only if you win against the clock. What do great champions like Tiger Woods say after any event - I was good in the last round, I could manage the last lap pretty well today... Not like... I was worried whether I would be able to beat him. Great champions have no competition. They are always competing with themselves.. And that's where they are always focused. 8/ Attitude, Action, Achievement (AAA) - That is the order in which you can expect to achieve things. You are going to be an Olympic gold medalist in Attitude long before you have a medal around your neck. Your Attitude in life determines your Altitude. That's exactly how important Attitude is. Give it any lesser priority, at your own peril. Your mastery and achievement in your craft is mandatorily preceded by your mastery in Attitude and then a mastery in your action. It is only after that you can think of achieving something extraordinary. 9/ People always step up and do things out of the ordinary at the Olympics The environment in which you perform creates a big impact on your own performance. In marathons that I have been personally running every year, we call it as a "Race Day Magic". Keep yourself in great company so that you can brush your thoughts with the greatest around. 10/ Set your goals high. Then work rigorously every day to achieve them Setting your goals is very important. But the challenge only starts there. It is the day to day work that you have to perform to achieve your goal that is going to test you. Focus on the daily routine, the daily process and do it consistently to achieve your goals. Hard work, skill, patience - all are important, but daily consistency is the key. 11/ Greatness comes from longevity It is good to achieve your goals. But the journey from Good to Great comes only if you achieve them over and over and over.......again and again. You have to go out and prove that your achievements are not fluke. 12/ I tried to do something bold at Athens, and failed. But it is trying that matters. Achievement is important, but trying is what is vital. Achievement is not feasible without trying while vice versa is not true. You do not learn when you achieve, but you learn and improve only when you go out and try. 13/ It takes time, energy, heart and soul to get things done. If I was sometimes not in the right mood to practice, I had to get myself in the right mood. How you feel is how you think, and how you think is 100% in your control. No situation, no person, nothing outside you can impact your thoughts, unless you allow it to. If you are not feeling like chasing your goal today, then change how you feel by changing what you are thinking. 14/ To focus, understand "WIN". "What's important now". When challenged and stretched, understand what is important now You may be deep in shit, but being there, forget where you were earlier in favourable times. In that tough situation, you must focus fully so that you can come out of it. Do not keep comparing it to your earlier situation. Focus, Focus hard on your current situation and think about what best can be done now. Do not waste time. What is important now is what will matter later. A champion can deal with any kind of pressure under any circumstances. 15/ No one is more important than anyone else to be treated any differently We were all born equal. We had our fair share of opportunities. Though we achieve different levels of success, we play an equally important part in the drama of life, and in the success of others. No one can achieve anything of one's own. Everyone needs immense support for success, and therefore everyone has an important role to play. 16/ However difficult your goals may seem, there is nothing that is not possible, as long as you keep dreaming on the possibilities (after winning the 7th gold at Beijing by 1/100 th of a second) Never let anyone tell you that anything is impossible. Because nothing actually is. Manoj Arora ...more |
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It is often not big changes, but small ones, that spark big influence in our lives. If ever there were small things that you could potentially achieve
It is often not big changes, but small ones, that spark big influence in our lives. If ever there were small things that you could potentially achieve you extraordinary results, you ought to read this book. This book has the potential to impact your daily life by bringing in the minimal changes and achieving remarkable outcomes... Do you already follow some of them? Read on.. "The Small BIG" by Steve J Martin / Noah J Goldstein and Robert B Cialdini is an awesome read. There are 52 small changes mentioned in the book (perhaps one for a week) that you can bring in yourself or your environment to bring in extraordinary results in your life. You may be aware / may have read about some of these in one form or the other but I have listed 20 of my Book Lessons that influenced me sharply. (1) Social proof - the evidence of crowd The evidence of crowd following a specific thing is a big influencer to people behavior. Our behavior is largely influenced by the behavior of others around us. So, while selling a product, if you can highlight the number of positive feedback, reviews etc, it influences people to take a decision too. (2) Reason not required People who get influenced by the decision of the crowd often do not know or do not want to know the reason for their decision. (3) Specific Evidence More specific is the evidence, more is the probability of others to follow. It is advisable to give real time specific information when talking about any concept or product. (4) Uniqueness People seek to define themselves based on what makes them unique. If possessing a specific product or a concept will bring people in a unique category, they are more likely to go for it. (5) Client's Success One of the biggest way to motivate an employee is to remind him / her of the significance of his / her role to client's success (6) The Broken Windows phenomenon The Broken Windows phenomenon suggests the importance of keeping small things neat and tidy and how these positively influences others. (7) The sweetest word Our own name is the sweetest word we hear. Use the recipient's name quite often in your communication with others to keep them interested in what you are trying to convey. (8) Ask questions to confirm decisions You can persuade people by asking questions that plan and confirm their decision rather than a question which could confirm or negate a proposition. As an example, if you are pursuing a key person to attend a meeting, instead of asking 'Are you attending the meeting today?', you might ask a confirmatory question 'What are you doing just before our meeting today?'. Whatever be the answer of the person to the later question, you have got a confirmation for the meeting in any case. (9) Lock people to commit to decisions You can lock people to commit to decisions by letting them know that the decision is implementable in far future rather than in the near future. This is especially true if they are not very sure of their decision today. (10) Meaningful distractions Meaningful distractions for people waiting in queue can drastically reduce their frustration and improve loyalty. (11) The Right Seating Arrangement A circular seating arrangement nurtures collaboration while a square or rectangular seating arrangement promotes uniqueness and ownership. So, depending on the way you want to drive the meeting, you might choose an appropriate conference room. (12) Unsure Experts People expect experts to be certain about their opinions. But it is only when the expert expresses uncertainties that people are truly drawn into what they are saying. This is perhaps because they believe that no one can know everything, and an honest expression of uncertainty goes a long way in building the trust factor. (13) Room Size People are proven to think more creatively if the room has a high ceiling or, even better, is an open lawn. So, it is not only you feel better in an open space, but also think better and more creative. Another reason, I should again start sleeping in an open terrace rather than an air conditioned room. (14) Visualisation Once again, it is proven beyond doubt. You can recollect all your power by writing down or visualising your powerful moments from past. (15) Questions and Questions There are no silly questions... Ask questions, ask help as often as you can. (16) Be the first one While negotiating, be the first one to place an offer and make sure that the offer is as precise as it is feasible. The first offer becomes the baseline and drives the entire negotiation discussion. (17) Cost Saving When selling, don't just focus on cost savings for the client, but highlight what could potentially be done with the saved cost, thus leveraging the concept of Cost of lost opportunity, if the client does not go with you. (18) Chasing Goals - Small Area Hypothesis When starting to chase goals, focus on the smaller achievements in the early phases (like 10% done rather than 90% remaining) and on smaller pending activities at a later stage (like 10% remaining rather than 90% done). This is called small area hypothesis and keeps you motivated towards your goal. (19) From a Distance Taking a physical step back and viewing the task from a greater distance can reduce your perception of how difficult the task of actually is. So, if you're stuck with a stubborn problem or are not able to take a decision, actually take a few physical steps back from the problem and re-think. (20) Peak-End Effect / Duration Neglect Every experience has a 'peak-end' effect i.e. we tend to remember the peak experience and the end of the experience e.g. Remember one of your older vacation and you will realise that we remember usually the best / worst experience of the vacation and then how the vacation ended, completely forgetting the rest of the duration. This term is also called as duration neglect. So, to create better memories for your lifetime, you may reduce the number of days of your vacation but ensure that you have the thrillist adventure possible and wind it up with a great last day. Important is that all of these extraordinary results have been proven scientifically by more than one research and study. Go, pick your small change that can influence your results significantly. ...more |
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Invest in companies with great businesses AND great management, then mostly leave them alone. In investing, it is not necessary to do extraordinary thi Invest in companies with great businesses AND great management, then mostly leave them alone. In investing, it is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results. Do ordinary things well. Same holds true with life. Facts do not cease to exist, either because they are unpleasant or because they are ignored. Noble intentions should be checked periodically against results. Accounting numbers are the language of business and as such are of enormous help to anyone evaluating the worth of a business and tracking its progress. However, accounting is but an aid to business thinking, never a substitute for it. Bad terminology is the enemy of good thinking. Managers that always promise to ‘make the numbers’ will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers. The intellect should be the servant of the heart, but not its slave It's a good idea to review past mistakes before committing new ones. Manic-depressive personalities produce manic-depressive valuations. Price and value can differ; price is what you give, value is what you get. You can't make a good deal with a bad person. Should you find yourself in a chronically-leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks. It's not what you've got - it's what you do with what you've got. We are willing to look foolish as long as we don't feel we have acted foolishly. Speculation is most dangerous when it looks easiest. You can be highly successful as an investor without having the slightest ability to value an option. What students should be learning is how to value a business. That’s what investing is all about. The declines make no difference to us, given that we expect all of our businesses to now and then have ups and downs. (Only in the sales presentations of investment banks do earnings move forever upward.) In the stock market, what the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end. Occasional outbreaks of those two super-contagious diseases, fear and greed, will forever occur in the investment community. The timing of these epidemics will be unpredictable. And the market aberrations produced by them will be equally unpredictable, both as to duration and degree. Therefore, we never try to anticipate the arrival or departure of either disease. Our goal is more modest: we simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful. Stocks can’t outperform businesses indefinitely. When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night’s sleep for the chance of extra profits. The most important thing to do when you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging. It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked. A promise is no better than the person or institution making it. the most elusive of human goals - keeping things simple and remembering what you set out to do. Anyone who says money can’t buy happiness simply hasn’t learned where to shop. ...more |
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My learnings : (1) As much as winning is sought after, losing is also an integral part of the game. (2) The players age or rank does not count beyond a My learnings : (1) As much as winning is sought after, losing is also an integral part of the game. (2) The players age or rank does not count beyond a point. (3) When you look back from a winning position, you tend to forget all the toil and slump. (4) You need to believe that you can win irrespective of your opponent. For that, visualization is very useful. (5) We Indians are making progress in every tournament. We are making it difficult for our opponents and that's the point media misses when they say that India lost. (6) I couldn't keep explaining myself to everyone. I must focus on my game and the game would do the talking. (7) If through my efforts, there are youngsters who can today consider badminton as a viable career, I am ecstatic! If they can dream of reaching the top, my success has been worthy. (8) Parents should start enrolling their kids in sports early, preferably between the ages of five and eight, to recognize their children’s potential. (9) I recommend that children study as much as possible. Sportspersons’ career spans are limited and they will need to be employable once their sports career is over. (10) There is a certain responsibility that comes with success and I have learnt that one is never fully prepared for it. (11) I am not the most talented player in the world or in the country, but I have made up for what I lack in talent with hard work, commitment, and focus. I think that this combination works no matter what you do in life. (12) Finding something you love to do and giving it your all is a great life mantra to have. (13) Having Dreams is a positive sign of progress and of creative minds. (14) Education is as important as sports. ...more |
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An inspiring tale of a young boy who learns to dream, who rises from a failure to be the most successful author, who realizes that we are sent here on
An inspiring tale of a young boy who learns to dream, who rises from a failure to be the most successful author, who realizes that we are sent here on a mission, and that we must drive our passion to discover our mission and then chase it. Awesome life principles and values woven in a simple and powerful story of this boy... ...more |
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My learnings : (1) There are two things that make today the greatest entrepreneurial age: 1. We have access to teachers like never before. 2. You can s My learnings : (1) There are two things that make today the greatest entrepreneurial age: 1. We have access to teachers like never before. 2. You can start a business from home while still working at your job (2) No job is guaranteed. A job is always at the whim and mercy of others. If you truly want security, you would be better off relying on yourself (3) People are trainable. They can be trained to be either employees or entrepreneurs (4) The reason there are more employees than entrepreneurs is simply because our schools train young people to become employees (5) Yet to hear any parent say, ‘Go to school so you can become an entrepreneur (6) If you’re the leader of the team and you’re also the smartest person on the team, your team is in trouble (7) CEOs give their employees just enough money to afford food and shelter and a hint of medical care. The employees would then be forced to work long hours at difficult jobs. It is the same with slavery. Slavery was abolished. Freedom has to be earned. (8) To be successful in school, you had to take tests alone, else you are stamped as a cheater. In real world, to generate wealth, you collaborate to create win-win during testing times. (9) Many people think that a leader's role is to solve the problems of the team. No. It's role is to identify the best person in the team to solve the problem. The team solves the problem as the leader provides the tools and environment to help the team communicate effectively. (10) Sales is done one on one. Marketing is sales done via a system (11) Security and Freedom are direct opposites. The more security you seek, the less freedom you have. The people with the most security are in jail. If you want freedom, you need to let go of security. Employees desire security. Entrepreneurs seek freedom. (12) Setup a business. Automate it with a perfected process. Come out, and setup another one. Go on. Keep yourself free..always. Process is the key. ...more |
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My learnings: (1) Adversities always presents opportunities (2) There is a larger energy or force than can crush our ambitions and goals in the blink of My learnings: (1) Adversities always presents opportunities (2) There is a larger energy or force than can crush our ambitions and goals in the blink of an eye. The only way forward is to survive, and then rebuild your life. (3) Our country needs citizens who trust their individuality which cannot be manipulated by people with unscrupulous agendas (4) It does not matter how large or small your sphere of activity is, what matters finally is the commitment that you bring to your work. (5) Destiny, traditions, situation will test the women again and again. Yet, she will find a way to guide her family out of any crisis and she will do it with such love that it will inundate your heart. (6) When faced with adversity, we discover hidden resilience and courage - something that already existed. (7) Books gave me dreams, which became mission. (8) Events of great magnitude shift something with in us at a fundamental level (9) When we reach pinnacle of success, we tend to ignore the numerous sacrifices that have gone behind it. (10) In sadness, you are truly alone. That's when your true self is revealed to you (11) The best way to win is not to covet the win too much. Keep a calm and open mind to new challenges. (12) The line between leadership and bullying is a thin one. (13) Our mind is unbelievably elastic and can expand as much as we let it. The belief in yourself that comes along in life changing. ...more |
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My learnings: (1) We do a mistake if we cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit. The rules that we choose to write as a My learnings: (1) We do a mistake if we cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit. The rules that we choose to write as a society matter a lot. (2) Achievement is Talent + Practice / Preparation, the latter being the majority stakeholder. (3) Approx 10,000 Hours of practice is required to be a world class expert in anything. It takes roughly 10 years to put in 10,000 hours of practice. (4) Ten thousand hours is an enormous amount of time. You cannot do it all alone. You will need lot of encouragement, support and you cannot be doing a part time job to make your ends meet, because you will just not be be left with enough time everyday to hit 10,000 hours of practice. (5) IQ matters but only up to a point. Beyond that, its your attitude. It is just like in a basketball game, height matters but that's just up to a point. (6) No one, whether rock stars, professional sportsmen, billionaires, and not even geniuses - make it alone. They need guidance and support at the right age. Good parenting, great environment is key in producing legends. (7) When you accept a salary cheque, it basically boils down to what you feel is right vs what you can do to receive the next paycheck (8) the opportunities you are presented with for success are not only dependent on your inner qualities, your parenting but also the time you were born in this world. (9) Most air accidents are not a result of any major mechanical or technical failures. These are usually small incidents that happen one after another - which either get unnoticed or are not communicated properly in an unambiguous manner. This lack of communication has a lot to do with the culture in which the pilot and the co-pilot are born and brought up in. (10) No one who can rise before dawn 360 days a year fails to make his family rich ...more |
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My learning: (1) If you disagree with someone, you may be tempted to interrupt. But don't. It is dangerous. They wont pay any attention to you. They st My learning: (1) If you disagree with someone, you may be tempted to interrupt. But don't. It is dangerous. They wont pay any attention to you. They still have lot of ideas crying to find their way to expression. (2) Dont you have more faith in your own ideas than those offered to you on a silver plate? If yes, then it applies the same way when we offer our ideas to others. Offer ideas only if asked, and even after that, retract and let them make their own decision. (3) A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. Speak softly. Be polite. (4) Humility and praise, when rightfully used, can work miracles in human relations. (5) Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit. We cannot grow without it. (6) We might do the same thing as others, given the same circumstances. (7) Teaching children to count is important. Teaching them what counts is critical. (8) Even God does not judge. Who are you and me? (9) The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important. Make people feel important and they would do anything for you. (10) Be lavish in appreciation. People will cherish and treasure your words, and repeat them till years after you have forgotten them. (11) the rare individual who unselfishly tries to help others has little competition in this world. He need not worry about his future. (12) You can make more friends in two months by becoming genuinely interested in other people that you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. (13) People are not interested in you and me. They are interested in themselves. When you see a group photograph that you are in, whose picture do you look at first? (14) There is nothing either good or bad. Our thinking about it makes it so. (15) A person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language. (16) When your child talks to you, stop everything else and listen. There is nothing more respectful and lovable as listening. (17) Many people call a doctor when all they need is a good audience. (18) Any fool can try to defend his or her mistake, and most fools do. ...more |
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My learnings : (1) Our age is not determined by our birth certificate or calendar, but by our biological clock, which is powered by our positive though My learnings : (1) Our age is not determined by our birth certificate or calendar, but by our biological clock, which is powered by our positive thoughts. (2) You dont get better and then become a public speaker. You speak and get better. (3) Enjoy everything without falling slave to anything. (4) Nature resists every change until a threshold is reached, beyond which it starts to support. ...more |
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