Listen to the below YouTube link where Malcolm Gladwell and Alex Hutchinson discuss about Secrets of Human Endurance.
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Wednesday 28 March 2018
Character First, Skill Second (M Hussey)
I will not
add more to Smith – Warner (Ball Tampering) episode as cricketing giants have spoken
extensively.
I wish to
highlight what was best written / spoken in the context of Skill.
Igor
Babailov (Artist) stated:
On Skill
“Whether it is drawing or painting,
skilled Artists usually deliver a faster result without jeopardizing the
quality, simply because they don't have to waste their time on fixing mistakes.”
On Advice
“Artists with the lack of proper
education and experience of working from life will copy whatever is visible on
the photograph, without knowing what's underneath. As a result, instead of
creating the in-depth and full of character portrait, they draw a mask with no
soul.”
Steve Smith
is one of the best batsmen in contemporary cricket. He is an
immensely skilled cricketer.
Henceforth, he will be wasting his time on fixing
his mistakes and re-building his portrait.
Michael
Hussey (Australian cricketer) made a very valid statement in the context of any
profession:
CHARACTER
FIRST, SKILL SECOND
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Tuesday 27 March 2018
Interesting Difference
We have always remarked that get
your work done at rocket speed. Others remark that your progress should be on a
speedy track. Yes the context of the statement is understandable.
However
a recent study of a note in The Farnam Street, revealed one important
aspect of speed. I wish to reproduce the small section from the blog:
"Velocity and speed are different things. Speed
is the distance traveled over time. I can run around in circles with a lot of
speed and cover several miles that way, but I’m not getting anywhere. Velocity
measures displacement. It’s direction-aware."
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Thursday 15 March 2018
My Learning
How happenstance plays a key role
This is
important story about Wallace and Darwin. Both came with same conclusion on one
of the important scientific discoveries “Survival of the Fittest”. Darwin will
be remembered since children read in school and Wallace will be remembered for
how luck sidelined him.
“Wallace was also famous during his lifetime, but his name did not continue forward to the public after he passed. At the time of his death, in 1913, Wallace was still famous, but because he was not as successful (or lucky) as Darwin at reaching mainstream audiences, he was quickly forgotten. It was only a twist of fate or the happenstance of age that Darwin was older and further along in his theory by the time Wallace evolved to that same place. In a way, Darwin was simply the one we naturally selected.”
“Wallace was also famous during his lifetime, but his name did not continue forward to the public after he passed. At the time of his death, in 1913, Wallace was still famous, but because he was not as successful (or lucky) as Darwin at reaching mainstream audiences, he was quickly forgotten. It was only a twist of fate or the happenstance of age that Darwin was older and further along in his theory by the time Wallace evolved to that same place. In a way, Darwin was simply the one we naturally selected.”
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You Don’t Know What You Want
We are ignorant on what is the reason behind most of the decisions
we take. We take it out of our impulse or instinct and subsequently give a
confirmation bias to it.
“A lot of what we call self-knowledge is actually
self-interpretation. So I see myself make a choice, and then when I’m asked
why, I just try to make as much sense of it as possible when I make an
explanation. But we do this so quickly and with such ease that we think we
actually know the answer.”
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NOTA (Indian Elections)
Why NOTA (None Of The Above) button becomes important?
Political parties unite to
defeat an opponent and bury their ideological differences.
How can you trust such political parties when the aim is to acquire power?
Important news which should
never be ignored:
"19 opposition parties
attend dinner hosted by Sonia Gandhi" (Business Standard Newspaper).
The
question is why ordinary citizens should vote to any of the political parties, instead vote for NOTA.
Two quotes
worth mentioning:
On
penalty for not participating in elections –
“The
heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to
yourself” – Plato
On
Philosophy of political parties –
“We live
in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy” - Martin L Gross
References:
Stephen Hawking (1942-2018)
On Advice to children
"One, remember to
look up at the stars and not down at your feet.
Two, never give up work. Work
gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
Three, if you are
lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away."
On Fate
"I have noticed
that even people who claim everything is predetermined and that we can do
nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."
On being positive
"My expectations were
reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus."
We have lot to learn from Life. In a world filled with nuclear threats,
corruptions, civil wars, terrorist attacks etc. life gives birth to wonderful moments and
Stephen Hawking was one of them.
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