Prashant Patel
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Prashant Patel
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.
Morgan Housel • 100 Little Ideas
A flow state is priceless. It happens when we lose ourselves in the work, simply connecting with the task, without commentary or doubt. When we’re in flow, time slows down, satisfaction rises and we feel fully engaged.
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
“People are always trying to add more stuff to life. Reduce it to simpler, pure moments.” — Jerry Seinfeld
“When you start working, everybody is in your studio - the past, your friends, enemies, the art world and above all your own ideas - all are there. But if you continue painting they all start leaving one by one, and you are left alone. Then if you’re lucky, even you leave” - Philip Guston
Quotes and Flow State
Well-arranged words rearrange reality.
We must expect to misunderstand. We must expect to be misunderstood. For sanity we must try to minimise misunderstanding.
“The world reveals itself to those who walk” — Werner Herzog
…..This blend of happiness and peak performance is sometimes referred to as flow, which is what athletes and performers experience when they are “in the zone.” Flow is the mental state you experience when you are so focused on the task at hand that the rest of the world fades away.