Prashant Patel
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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 heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing." - Pascal…but …..The reason has its heart of which the heart feels nothing…
Create an alter ego to summon confidence
Kobe Bryant created his "Black Mamba" alter ego as a way to get through the lowest point of his career. His nickname was inspired by the movie "Kill Bill," in which the snake, known for its agility and aggressiveness, was used as a code name for a deadly assassin. "The length, the snake, the bite, the strike,
Double Thank You moment : How many times have you paid $1 for a cup of coffee and after the clerk said, "Thank you," you responded, "Thank you"? There's a wealth of economics wisdom in the weird double thank-you moment. Why does it happen? Because you want the coffee more than the buck, and the store wants the buck more than the coffee. Both of you
... See moreNon-linear outcomes could come if one can identify signal over noise but also weak signal over strong signal.
Flaubert famously said, “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
The feeling of clarity can be dangerously seductive. It is the feeling associated with understanding things. And we use that feeling, in the rough-and-tumble of daily life, as a signal that we have investigated a matter sufficiently. The sense of clarity functions as a thought-terminating heuristic
Non-Ergodic : When group probabilities don’t apply to singular events. If 100 people play Russian Roulette once, the odds of dying might be, say, 10%. But if one person plays Russian Roulette 100 times, the odds are dying are practically 100%.
Morgan Housel • 100 Little Ideas
We must expect to misunderstand. We must expect to be misunderstood. For sanity we must try to minimise misunderstanding.