Not all who wander are lost
A little while ago, I read some great productivity lessons that have endured through the ages and summarize many lessons on my own website very well. I do not remember where I downloaded this image from, but it is brought…
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We all think that we understand what grit means: it is perseverance. However, there are aspects of grit we do not fully understand. At least I did not until I came across a key message in Angela Duckworth’s book Grit….
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I have found some good messages in the book Mind Platter by Najwa Zebian, a Lebanese-Canadian author and poet. Some excerpts are as follows. My Philosophy I cannot count the number of times I’ve been told not to be too…
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The only constant in life is change. It is very important to realize that nothing stays the same forever. Not our health, not our relationships, not our skills, and so on. Everything either improves or declines. This is where it…
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Recently, I came upon the book Mind Platter by Najwa Zebian, a Lebanese-Canadian author and poet. I found that she has a great talent to express ideas in a heart-warming style. Here is an excerpt. If you can’t stand up…
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In an interview on business lessons, Elon Musk had a great advice as follows. Starting a business, I’d say, number one is have a high pain threshold. Alain de Botton also had something very similar to say on writing a…
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Some time ago, I had to take a 15 hours flight which I thought would be very boring. I do not like to get trapped in a tube for a long long time without any option to walk or run…
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Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel, predicted in 1965 that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles about every 18 months. It is not a physical law and instead just a remarkable observation of…
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The good thing about good habits is that they build a history of investment in that aspect of one’s life in the form of an unbroken run. This investment if continued for some time (even with pain) plays a central…
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Here are some useful notes from J. K. Rowling’s book Very Good Lives. Poverty entails a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the captive of the Fates. Failure teaches us things about ourselves…
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