Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
- Sun Tzu (Ancient Chinese military strategist)
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Teach to Think, Not to Know Facts
It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts…it is to teach them to think.
- Robert M. Hutchins
Friday, October 7, 2011
Life's How You Feel
Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain
I am sure Mark Twain was conscious of the fact that 'facts and happenings' affect one's 'storm of thought', but probably what he is alluding to is that one's 'storm of thought' may also be autonomous.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
People Don't Know What They Want
A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.
- Steve Jobs (in interview with BusinessWeek, 1998) on designing products
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
The Cheating Culture
The level of the public's trust is low to the point of being "poisonous". Throughout his book, he states that cynical attitudes and lack of trust in others produce cheating. For example, one expecting to be "screwed" by others is more likely to cheat others to compensate.
- From a review of the book "The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead"
Sunday, September 11, 2011
False Perception Creates Reality
Sometimes a false perception creates reality.
Because we tend to act in response to, or in the wake of, that perception (consciously or unconsciously). Those actions then create a reality that would not have been created sans that perception.
The phenomena known as 'self-fulfilling prophecy' and 'self-defeating prophecy' are instances of a false perception creating reality.
For example, a false perception that a hostile country is preparing to attack our country may impel us to make war preparations, which may in turn alarm the other country and induce it also to start preparing for a war. All this may lead to a real war.
The expression "ideas starting to take on a life of their own" probably also alludes to the same idea.
Because we tend to act in response to, or in the wake of, that perception (consciously or unconsciously). Those actions then create a reality that would not have been created sans that perception.
The phenomena known as 'self-fulfilling prophecy' and 'self-defeating prophecy' are instances of a false perception creating reality.
For example, a false perception that a hostile country is preparing to attack our country may impel us to make war preparations, which may in turn alarm the other country and induce it also to start preparing for a war. All this may lead to a real war.
The expression "ideas starting to take on a life of their own" probably also alludes to the same idea.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Bucketing People
W.F.S
I know bucketing people is not particularly considered wise. But I can't help it. Do you find yourself focusing on one of these dimensions of life constantly? I am skeptical about people being able to concentrate on everything. In some cases, it may be two dimensions (like W and F).
I know bucketing people is not particularly considered wise. But I can't help it. Do you find yourself focusing on one of these dimensions of life constantly? I am skeptical about people being able to concentrate on everything. In some cases, it may be two dimensions (like W and F).
- The W group: Wisdom, Work, Wit (includes pursuit of all mental skills)
- The F group: Food, Fitness, Family (worldly relationships), and Finances
- The S group: Serenity (search for peace and quiet), Spirituality (intrigued by sincerity, morals, supernatural experiences and social-causes) and Sensitivity (emotional rather than rational aspects, creative endeavors that don't necessarily make sense to others)
If you find yourself falling under one of these categories, do you think it is easier for you to relate to others in the same category?
- From a blog
My Response
Hey Nimmy... a perceptive classification indeed... I believe these types do exist.The labels you've chosen are also catchy and brilliant.
To add my 2 cents, I think there is another category of people who focus exclusively on power. They hardly care for the W group, neglect the F group, and don't give a damn to the S group. To them, power is the ultimate pleasure and the only worthwhile pursuit in life... therefore they tend to measure everything on the scale of power, consciously or unconsciously.
Monday, August 22, 2011
The Importance of Being Educated
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.- G.K. Chesterton
Sunday, August 7, 2011
How to Get Important Things Done
"It is a profoundly erroneous truism that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing," the philosopher A.N. Whitehead explained back in 1911. "The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them."
Indeed many great performers aren't even consciously aware that's what they've done. They've built their rituals intuitively.
Over the past decade, I've built a series of rituals into my everyday life, in order to assure that I get to the things that are most important to me — and that I don't get derailed by the endlessly alluring trivia of everyday life.
Owning Business May Prevent Work Life Balance
Never own your own business - always work for someone else - this is the only way I know to have a life that isn't all about work.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Caller ID
My God, the total exciting transformation of the call from out of the blue. There is so little magic in adult life. This was one of the few true magical things that could happen to you. But now with caller ID and e-mails and texts, you know exactly who is trying to contact you and what he or she wants.
- From Reader’s Digest
Friday, May 27, 2011
Obstacle of Obsolete Assumptions
- John Seely Brown
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Standardization vs Improvization
The real genius of organizations is the informal, impromptu, often inspired ways that real people solve real problems in ways that formal processes can’t anticipate. When you’re competing on knowledge, the name of the game is improvisation, not rote standardization.
- John Seely Brown
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