Prashant Patel
@samtrish
Prashant Patel
Nuance matter.
Pareto Principle : The majority of outcomes are driven by a minority of events.
Morgan Housel • 100 Little Ideas
Flaubert famously said, “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
Outer Score Cards don’t matter. Inner Score cards count.
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
The solution to a mediocre life is focus.
Changing the answer is evolution, Changing the question is revolution.
—Jorge Wagensberg
Dogma says - “this is so”
Fiction says - “this isn’t so, but let’s pretend that it is”
Hypothesis says - “perhaps this is so; let’s see if it is”
Scientific thinking is about hypothesis ...
Writers and artists of all kinds share a pervasive trope with scientists: creative work is immensely satisfying, but the moment to moment experience of producing it can be extraordinarily unpleasant.