Just finished reading Ramayana Unraveled by Ami Ganatra (
@6amiji
) for a second time.
It provides life-changing principles that I would like to apply in 2024 and beyond. Here are 11 of them:
1. Never let anger or lust drive your actions.
2. Always put up your best behavior,
"When you’re about to have an opinion, first ask yourself whether it’s on a primary, secondary, or tertiary issue. On tertiary issues, be silent. On secondary issues, be humble. On primary issues, be passionate."
--
@G_S_Bhogal
(Source: )
@MartinPovolny
Could you explain why you applied this formula? I'm curious because it seems to be the simplest way to get the same answer I took 2 minutes to reach.
For the last 6 years, I've admired
@safalniveshak
's articles, not just on value investing but also on the wisdom of life. So when Vishal published The Sketchbook of Wisdom, I had to lay my hands on it. A thread on my biggest takeaways (1/n)
@ShaneAParrish
"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone." — Blaise Pascal
Slack can be rejuvenating if we can direct our attention. If we're prisoners of our thoughts, the mind will never truly be at rest.
@RobertGreene
“The secret to work is this: Let the end and the means be joined into one. When you are doing any work, do not think of anything beyond. Do it as worship, as the highest worship, and devote your whole life to it for the time being.”
– Swami Vivekananda
@paulg
One thing yoga does is that it subconsciously creates a gap between our thoughts and us in that we’re not driven by them but we can stand back and actually observe what we’re thinking (and what we should be thinking).
@paulg
Richard Carlton of 3M had said, "The difference between persistence and stubbornness is success. If you succeed, you’re persistent. If you fail, you’re stubborn."
@G_S_Bhogal
@elonmusk
I think the point here is about vaccines. There are no vaccines for cancer and HIV.
But yes, COVID has proved to be deadly, and only those who have experienced the effects—or know someone who did—are more likely to accept its lethality.
Contrarian optimists study history deeply to realize that the potential to find new ideas that multiply is vast. And they don't dismiss human resilience just because the media makes the current scenario appear grim.
@BoyanSlat
Armchair activists tend to promote other armchair activists while dismissing the ones who are actually on the ground getting their hands dirty.
Ever wondered why dreams feel longer than they really are? Why an hour in a dream might just be 10 minutes in real life? It’s because of how the brain functions when we sleep versus when we’re awake. A thread. (1/n)
@RobertGreene
It may sound ironic, but to get closer to reality, we must take a step back from the situation.
Swami Chinmayananda would say:
"Imagine a huge painting the size of this stage backdrop and you are standing right next to it. What will you make out of it? Just a blur, perhaps.
@RobertGreene
“The old idea was: ‘Develop one idea at the expense of all the rest.’ The modern way is ‘harmonious development.’ A third way is to ‘develop the mind and control it’, then put it where you will; the result will come quickly. This is developing yourself in the truest way. Learn
A lesson learned on pacing ourselves so that we eventually cross the finish line:
I’d been struggling with coffee addiction; it’s one thing I couldn’t let go of.
One day, I decided to quit cold turkey. No more coffee for the next 2 weeks, I declared.
Within 2 days, I was
@anandmahindra
@devusinh
Reminds me of the dialogue in the movie Batman Begins, that Ra's Al Ghul says to Bruce Wayne: "The training is nothing, the will is everything."
10 takeaways from an insightful panel discussion during the launch of Ami Ganatra's book Mahabharata Unravelled II:
On 9th Feb, Mahabharata Unravelled II was launched in an event organized by
@mahagathe
and
@brhat_in
.
The panelists were: Ami ji (
@6amiji
) Pankaj Saxena ji
“Mass vaccination is the only safe and reliable method to end the pandemic without significant mortality. The Asian Flu pandemic of 1957 was stopped in its tracks by vaccination.” via
@amitsurg
@ValaAfshar
@timberners_lee
@CERN
Interesting trivia:
A Victorian book named “Enquire Within Upon Everything,” which Berner-Lee's parents owned while he was growing up, inspired him to write his first design for a system to link information called ENQUIRE. Eventually, it became the internet.
Many people are suffering from consumption exhaustion today. How much can you scroll Instagram or binge watch Netflix? How many webinars can one attend before getting saturated? The human DNA is encoded with the will to create, not over-consume.
@RobertGreene
The state of Flow… where I get so involved in an activity that I lose track of time and myself, yet come out the other side feeling more self-assured and fulfilled.
This podcast episode is soooo good!
Heard it once and deactivated a few unnecessary social media profiles.
I'm gonna hear it again and make notes on how to apply slow productivity in my own life.
“When you go back and study people producing things of real value, using their brain, they were smart, and they were dedicated, and they worked really hard, but they didn’t hustle, and they didn’t work 10-hour days, day after day. They didn’t work all-out, year-round. They didn’t
You will be forgotten when you leave, whether it's a job, a relationship, or even life. People will move on.
Accepting this will free your mind and let you discover yourself rather than making you attach your identity to a job, a belief, or a sect.
A lucid analysis by
@KanchanGupta
that addresses the elephant in the room during the India-EU summit: The EU's refusal to condemn China's belligerence.
While Ms Leyen and Mr Michel stuck to predictable platitudes, Mr Modi did not hesitate to repeatedly allude to the elephant in the room: 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐚 which continues to mount increasing “pressure on a rules-based international order”, writes
@KanchanGupta
:
@BrianDEvans
You'd also be surprised how much you can get from AI if you master the field. Your work will be of much higher quality than the superfluous ones.
@safalniveshak
There will always be critics, especially when we have open platforms. But as Roosevelt said:
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is
One of the simplest yet most powerful lessons I've learned from
@ShreyaShah22
is to be grateful and fully present while having food or water. After all, they are among the most important aspects of life.
It's difficult to practice, given all the distractions, but I keep trying.
@JamesClear
Break large problems down into tiny ones. Solve each of them and you'll solve the large problem.
Put together a lot of the micro and you get the macro.
My 3 key epiphanies during the pandemic:
1. We can actually do more with less.
2. Money alone does not bring happiness.
3. Happiness is not a pursuit, it's a byproduct of doing meaningful work.
What were your biggest lessons?
@paulg
What appears obvious to us may not be so to everyone. And many people may choose to not clarify their doubts out of fear of appearing foolish in public. Stating the obvious can be helpful to them too.
@lavsmohan
Lazlo Bock, ex VP at Google, recommends a useful formula: Accomplished [X] as measured by [Y] by doing [Z]
where X is the accomplishment, Y is the number which substantiates your accomplishment, and Z is the action through which the deed was fulfilled.