Prashant Patel
@samtrish
Prashant Patel
beautiful things don't ask for attention
Take on Intellectual risk to do anything meaningful. Financial risk in the end gives hollowness of a kind. Intellectual freedom and risk taking should be basis for financial freedom and risk taking
Buridan’s Ass : A thirsty donkey is placed exactly midway between two pails of water. It dies because it can’t make a rational decision about which one to choose. A form of decision paralysis.
Morgan Housel • 100 Little Ideas
Preference Falsification: People lie about their true opinions and conform to socially acceptable preferences instead. In private they’ll say one thing. In public, they’ll say another.
There are the two convictions: one that focuses on the numbers and one that feels.
“People are always trying to add more stuff to life. Reduce it to simpler, pure moments.” — Jerry Seinfeld
Listen to and pay attention to your body as part of cognition.
Set yourself up for success and go for a walk as part of cognition.
Cobra Effect: Attempting to solve a problem makes that problem worse. Comes from an Indian story about a city infested with snakes offering a bounty for every dead cobra, which caused entrepreneurs to start breeding cobras for slaughter.
