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Imagine a life without any influence from externals. It will be like a blank slate.
People say read, listen and watch to gain knowledge. How does it affect us and our behaviors? But is this much learning enough? Or this limited learning can leave some blind spots?
Is it difficult to be rational after gaining all the wordly knowledge?
The more I read I find I am nothing. It is like exploring into uncharted territory.
Excerpt from a book Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger by Peter Bevelin
Overthinking is a cause of depression. We end up imagining situations which have not happened. The fear of its happening itself makes us miserable.
Our brain is hard-wired to think negatives. That came with our Homo Sapiens DNA. Always in fight and flight mode.
The only thing we can do to avoid getting stressed and stop overthinking is to be in the present moment.
Charlie Munger in his commencement speech on June 13, 1986, to the Harvard School, talks about four ways to become miserable.
Munger continued from where Johnny Carson had spoken. Carson’s prescriptions for sure misery included:
1) Ingesting chemicals in an effort to alter mood or perception
2) Envy
3) Resentment
On top of this, Charlie Munger added 4 more :
Complete speech can be found here
How many of us are living in isolation? We resort to social media applications, news feeds. Do we feel we don’t belong in this real world where we would interact humanly?
Why do we have to take shelter to anonymous platforms to share our pain, happiness?
Is it because with the advancement of technology has affected our relationship in a different manner?
Are we more comfortable sharing and caring for remote strangers than the ones we grew up playing gully cricket/football with? Or is it we are all displaced from our native and we don’t have those friends anymore at walking distance?
Civilization has come far, we are living a better life yet more isolated and glued inside the gadgets?
How many decades are we away from the singularity?
How many times did you end up buying a bigger or newer costlier coffee at your favorite roaster?
You will know only if you check your expenditure on coffee.
You repeated your own behavior and ended up drinking costlier coffee in bigger mugs.
But what about the sample coffee barista offered you?
Well congratulations, you fell for self-herding. It is a common sales trick applied by coffee/candy/ice cream shops.
It is difficult to leverage past data and predict for the future. We should be more rational with our evaluation process keeping these points :
Excerpt from a book Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger by Peter Bevelin
We undermine the virtue of luck. Once we get famous or successful, we forget how much luck played its role. Our survivorship bias takes over reality.
It was luck that you were in the right place to seize an opportunity.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
― Seneca
Listening is one of the most important virtue for us. A good listener gets more love, respect, and recognition. This art can help us in being focused in all situations.
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
— Epictetus
Constrain Driven
A Learner
An Architect
A Coach
An Engineer
A Player
In short:
The dilemma and pain
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I remember reading this book title: Great Ceos Are Lazy and the note was lying somewhere in my notebook.