Prashant Patel
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Prashant Patel
If possible do Pre-mortems.
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
... See moreDavid Epstein • "Master of Change"
Berkson’s Paradox : Strong correlations can fall apart when combined with a larger population. Among hospital patients, motorcycle crash victims wearing helmets are more likely to be seriously injured than those not wearing helmets. But that’s because most crash victims saved by helmets did not need to become hospital patients, and those without
... See moreMorgan Housel • 100 Little Ideas
Mild success can be explainable by skill, but wild success is attributable to variance
Rule of 100 : If you spend 100 hours a year which is 18 min a day one a discpline; you'll get better than 95% of the world in that discpline. Consistency is everything.
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 moreThe 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
Well-arranged words rearrange reality.
In the cosmos of time, we are nothing but a fart in the wind