Prashant Patel
@samtrish
Prashant Patel
@samtrish
Talk to yourself in the third person.
Apophenia : A tendency to perceive correlations between unrelated things, because your mind can only deal with tiny sample sizes and assuming things are correlated creates easy/comforting explanations of how the world works.
“The world reveals itself to those who walk” — Werner Herzog
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 e
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We tend to overestimate what we can do in a day and underestimate what we can achieve in a decade. Miraculous things can be accomplished if you give it 10 years. A long game will compound small gains that will be able to overcome even big mistakes.
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%.
Kiss all frog and expand surface area of Serendipity