quotes

You know how some people make things look so easy. They seem to have all the time in the world to socialise and party. They seem to have ample time to watch TV and the latest shows. And they are on point with their work as well.

Subtraction is a superpower.

If you look at the things you have or can do versus what is out there, you are always missing out on something.

Not one thing about a workout is less than exciting, except your attitude toward it. How can a thing that offers so much, provides so much goodness and hope and exhilaration and esteem be dismal?

The best thing about rock bottom is the rock part. You discover the solid bit of you. That bit that can't be broken down further.

that does not mean you always go based on your gut. But for the over-thinkers out there, it is a tool to let your body-feel take the lead on things. Rather than drawing out a long list of pros and cons and that rot, just see how it makes you feel.

You are a composite of all your experiences so far. How you react to something today is hard to explain because there have been so many collisions and interactions along the way.

Most of this "problem solving" is simply a matter of selfishness, of wanting to get your way. You want people to behave in a way you'd like. Since they are not, you'd like to help them with their problem so they will behave better.

The product is what your customer feels as he walks out of your business.

The truth is no one knows what's going on and all of us are winging it. Some pretend well, some don't. Some are scoring a lot of points while winging it and that makes us assume they are experts.

Everyone around you sees you only through a rather small window, and through their lens. So, take what they say with that in mind. And the people who are much further out, who don't even know you through that window - how much attention should you be paying them?

unbounded growth cannot be sustained without having either infinite resources or inducing major paradigm shifts that "reset" the clock before potential collapse occurs.

A point of view is that quintessential human solution to information overload, an intuitive process of reducing things to an essential relevant and manageable minimum.

Obsessions and diving into something can turn into paradigm-shifting events. Not everything turns out into a great story you read about in the papers, or made into a neat movie (seen My Octopus Teacher yet?)

You don't have to stop doing anything except to stop seeing the world from the viewpoint of your own personal cravings.

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."

When pure feeling is corrupted by the intellect, there is mediocrity.

"Impossible is always a checklist"

We are hurtling on a large rock at 30 kilometres per second, that spins around every 24 hours, around a gargantuan star that is blazingly hot but gives us life coz we happen to be exactly the right distance from it.

Some books are filled with anecdotes and fun to read. From the obscure to the fascinating, I marvel at how authors dig up these stories. But most often, they are making 1-2 core points over 250 pages.