Of Antifragility and Potato Chips!!

Hi,
You are receiving this letter because your are either a friend or a friend of a friend who recommended I share this with you.
This is a weeklyish hand-curation of thoughts, posts, ideas, songs, etc that caught my eye on the Interwebs..

This is your sanctuary from all the noise around Indian Currency ban and US election results.

1. Events across the globe in the last few months may or may not be Black Swans but we cannot neglect the need for us to become AntiFragile. Not just resilient but Antifragile

1. As much as I like Mark Wahlberg, I felt 'The Gambler' was quite passable save for this one kickass scene with John Goodman. I cannot stress the Importance of creating a F*ck off Fund. Especially to my younger friends who are just starting out.

1. You are not an expert until you can explain it to a 5 year child. Physicist Richard Feynman (he won a Nobel for Quantum Electrodynamics) used an extremely simple 4 step method to accelerate his learning, aptly called The Feynman Technique.

1. All the books and blogs told me that the biggest purpose of my life is to be Happy!! So I did all things that I thought, will make me happy - I travelled, I shopped, I drank, bought my favourite car, yet I felt empty– until I realized the purpose of life is not happiness its usefulness.

1. Have you ever bought a new shirt, then found yourself hating your ugly old pants? You've become the victim of The Diderot Effect. It's part psychological, and part deliberate manipulation. Remember you are not an iPhone that needs to be updated every 2 weeks.

1. How we spend our days is how we spend our lives. This beauteous piece from Seneca on the Shortness of Life is a poignant reminder of what is extremely intuit yet so easily forgotten and almost never practiced.

1. Matching the idea of success to what others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking. Don’t present your work to the ones who know nothing.

1. Start paying attention to the way you do the small things in your life. You may surprise yourself at just how much more you are capable of. The way a person does one thing is the way they do everything

1. Take a deep breath and immerse yourself into NASA’s ultra real fly-through of the International Space Station.

Have a great week ahead. Remember, you survived it all and I still Love you!

Keshav

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