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This week instead of a long form article, I thought of changing it up by learning from thought leaders.
Below are snippets of wisdom from various writers in the form of tweets, quotes and links, which I found thought provoking.
5 Quotes
You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say, “How did he do it? He must be a genius!” - Richard Feynman
The ability to ask beautiful questions is one of the great disciplines of a human life. And a beautiful question starts to shape your identity as much by asking it as it does by having it answered. - David Whyte
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday. - Wilma Rudolph
Behaviour is contagious because we catch it from other people. Much of what we do results from unconscious mimicry of others around us. - Rory Sutherland
The biggest generator of long term results is learning to do things when you don't feel like doing them.
If you let excuses or emotion drive behavior, you're cheating yourself.
Put aside the excuses and start doing what you need to do. - FS Brain Food Newsletter
5 Tweets
5 Links
Ken Liu’s storytelling took me back to my own childhood days. This seemingly simple short story mixes realism with fantasy and is a must read. Here is a snippet-
“You know what the Chinese think is the saddest feeling in the world? It's for a child to finally grow the desire to take care of his parents, only to realize that they were long gone.”
If it was not clear before - read it and you can thank me later. :)
Starbucks, monetary superpower
JP Koning explains how Starbucks reinvented itself as a payments company. Starbucks functions as a quasi-bank with ~$1.6 billion in stored in physical gift cards which act as free debt for the company. Take a deep dive into how the company is leading the fin-tech revolution and the challenges it faces.
Warren Buffett: America’s Folksiest Predator
Matt Stroller explores the monopolist mindset of Buffett. The investment strategy which is key to his wealth and power. A snippet-
“Buffett is also an owner of the largest trailer park manufacturers. And he has presided over the complete rip-off of very vulnerable people who can't afford anything more than a mobile home.”
The racist double standards of international development
Jason Hickel explains the deep-seated racism bias entrenched in poverty calculation metrics.
“There is one standard for the (majority white) people of the North, and another standard for the (majority Black and brown) people of the South. It is a colonial logic that remains with us today, and goes unchallenged year after year.”
“You cannot have a single global economy when it suits you to use the labour and resources of the poor, but then insist on separation in order to measure their lives by different standards. That is the logic of apartheid.”
How To Take Smart Notes: 10 Principles to Revolutionize Your Note-Taking and Writing
If you are like me, that is someone who consumes a lot of information and then forgets the substance of what you were reading, this article is for you. It promises to help readers adopt a method to overcome their lack of retention -
“A reliable and simple external structure to think in that compensates for the limitations of our brains.”
Sometimes in life it’s important to stop, observe and absorb. This week I did just that and this was my way of sharing that with you. I hope to do more of it as I learn from the great minds out there.
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