Surya Prakash Jayanti

This is pretty interesting book from Grant Cardone, It took some time for me to get convinced to the point author is making but half way through the book I am convinced. Here are some quotes that hit me. Anyone that suggest to me to do less is either not a real friend or very confused. Your thoughts and actions are the reason why you are where you are right now. Success is the degree or measure of attaining some desired object or end. Once you attain this end, the issue is whether you can maintain, multiply and repeat your actions. This isn't about attaining one goal one time but rather about what we can persist in creating. A person who limits his or her potential success will limit what he or she will do to create it and keep it. Mankind seems to have this built-in, automatic calculator whose only purpose is to explain away failure. "In it to win it whatever it takes"  mind set. Sound too aggressive? sorry, but that is the outlook required to win nowadays. The harder I ...

Here are some interesting quotes from the boom "Moon Walking with Einstein - Joshua Foerr". Junk food in: junk brain. Healthy food in: healthy brain. Exceptional memorizers: Made, Not Born. We can only think about roughly seven things at a time. A great memory isn't just a by-product of expertise; it is the essence of expertise. The secret to becoming a chess grand master was to learn old games, the secret to becoming a grand master of life was to learn old texts. One book, printed in the heart's own wax/ Is worth a thousand in the stacks. Being good at being a lawyer means merely, on average, maximizing injustice. The brain best remembers things that are repeated, rhythmic, rhyming, structured, and above all easily visualized. "OK Plateau", the point at which you decide you're OK with how good you are at something, turn on autopilot, and stop improving. When you want to get good at something, how you spend your time practicing is far more important than...

Continued from   Quotes from "Limitless - Jim Kwik" Part I ... Somewhere between 40% to 50 % of what we do everyday is the product of a habit. The habits you repeat (or don't repeat) every day largely determine your health, wealth, and happiness. Habit is either best of servants or the worst of masters. Perfectionism reduces creativity and innovation. Concentration is at the crux of all human success and endeavor. Concentration muscle will become incredibly strong, and your focus will reach limitless levels. The human brain has the capacity to digest as much as 400 words per minute of information. On an average people can write 10-12 words a minute, and the average speaker speaks at around 100 words a minute. The man who does not read good books has NO advantage over the man who can't read them. LEADERS ARE READERS. There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days. If you...

Few of the quotes that are really interesting from Jim Kwik's books "Limitless". There is No pill for genius, but there is a process to get there. No problem can be solved from same level of consciousness that created it. If knowledge is power, then learning is our super power. The average person consumes three times as much information as we did in the 1960's. Digital deluge, Digital distraction, digital dementia and digital deduction are the four sins of modern world. Compared to the 15th century, we now consume as much data in a single day as an average person from 1400s would have absorbed in an entire lifetime. Short term memory pathways will start to deteriorate from underuse if we overuse technology. In a research conducted on London taxi drivers, It seemed that the longer someone had been driving a taxi, the larger his hippocampus, as though the brain expanded to accommodate the cognitive demands of navigating London's streets. Give a person an idea, and y...

Continued from: For previous blog,  Quotes from the book "Think like a Monk" - Part IV: What did you fail at today ? Failing meant they were trying, and that was more important than the immediate result. Lets not confuse an inflated ego with healthy self-esteem. The ego wants everyone to like you. High self-esteem is just fine if they don't. We either ask everyone for advice about one problem or we ask one person for advice about all of our problems. You shouldn't feel small compared to others, but you should feel small compared to your goals. Believe those who search for the truth; doubt those who have found it. If you are creating a memory, keep your eyes open. if you are reconnecting , then close them. Appreciate everything, even the ordinary. Especially the ordinary - Pema Chodron. If thankfulness were a drug, it would be the world's best-selling product. The salt is the pain of life. It is constant, but if you put it in a small glass, it tastes bitter. If you...

Continued from: For previous blog, Quotes from the book "Think like a Monk" - Part III: There  are three routes to happiness, all of them centered on knowledge: learning, progressing and achieving. Make your mind your friend. All spiritual teaching - this is not an oversimplification - is about how to be present to the moment... but the problem is, we're almost always somewhere else: reliving the past or worrying about the future. The crane stands still in water, ignoring the small fish as they pass by. Her stillness allows her to catch the bigger fish. Detachment is not that you own nothing, but that nothing should own you. We train our brains. In the end, it is your mind that translates the outside world into happiness or misery. Pride of wealth destroys wealth, pride of strength destroys strength and in the same manner pride of knowledge destroys knowledge. There is a meme that shows warren Buffett and Bill Gates standing side by side. The caption reads, "$162 Bil...

Continued from: For previous blog, Quotes from the book "Think like a Monk" - Part II: Success doesn't guarantee happiness and happiness doesn't require success. we can better handle discomfort when we can associate it with a goal, purpose, or person we care about. As monks, we learned to clarify our intentions through the analogy of seeds and weeds. When we plant seed it grows taller, when you have weed it never grows into something wonderful. External goals cannot fill internal voids. When Picasso charged $30,000 for a 30 seconds picture, he said, It took me thirty years of practice to be that perfect. So the charge is just NOT for the time it took to paint. Living intentionally means stepping back from  external goals, letting go of outward definitions of success, and looking within. When your natural talents and passions (Varna) connect with what the universe needs (Seva) and become your purpose, you are living in your dharma. Passion + Expertise + Usefulness = Dh...