Prashant Patel

Word of the Year. Choose one word as your intention for the year, and apply it to the various situations life may throw at you.

The small subset of the world that an animal is able to detect is its umwelt. The bigger reality, whatever that might mean, is called the umgebung.The interesting part is that each organism presumably assumes its umwelt to be the entire objective reality “out there”.

Homeostasis was the predominant way of considering change in the context of human health and flourishing for the last 170 years. Allostasis, however, is more recent and comes from the work of two scientists, Peter Sterling and Joseph Eyer, who coined the term after observing that long-term stability comes as a result of changing, at least to some

Nuance matter.

“People are always trying to add more stuff to life. Reduce it to simpler, pure moments.” — Jerry Seinfeld

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do—take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

Brian Eno

Changing the answer is evolution, Changing the question is revolution.

—Jorge Wagensberg

“You waste years by not being able to waste hours" - Amos Tversky