Prashant Patel
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Prashant Patel
Chronological Snobbery : “The assumption that whatever has gone out of date is on that account discredited. You must find why it went out of date. Was it ever refuted (and if so by whom, where, and how conclusively) or did it merely die away as fashions do? If the latter, this tells us nothing about its truth or falsehood. From seeing this, one
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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.
Take Notes as your memory recording may not be accurate and subsequently review notes as your memory recall may not be great.
Creativity is not some mysterious form of magic. It’s something that is rewarded to those who put in hours and hours of mundane, boring, tedious work.
Map is not the Territory
Territory is not a Touch down
Touch down is not the journey
Journey is not the Route
Route is not Behaviour
We must expect to misunderstand. We must expect to be misunderstood. For sanity we must try to minimise misunderstanding.
We create problems for ourselves by using static language (e.g. judgements) to capture a reality that is dynamic & ever changing — by mixing observations and evaluations
Non-linear outcomes could come if one can identify signal over noise but also weak signal over strong signal.
Gambler’s Conceit : People hooked on a risky behavior (e.g. gambling, smoking) reassure themselves they’ll be able to quit while ahead (before bankruptcy, lung cancer). However, their future-self tends to act a lot like them, so if they can't quit now, they likely won't quit later when they’re even deeper in.