Surya Prakash Jayanti

"Stolen Focus" is very interesting book written by Johann Hari, if I have it my way I will make this book mandatory for all students before they complete high school. Here are few quotes from that book that I really loved. On an average an adult working in an office stays on one task for 3 minutes. Obesity is not a medical epidemic - it's a social epidemic. We have more bad food choices available so people are getting fat. When attention breaks down, problem solving breaks down. Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. Average American spends 3 hours and 15 minutes on phone. We touch our phones 2,617 times every 24 hours. We cannot put off living until we are ready, life is fired at us point-blank. - Jose Ortega y Gasset Twitter makes you feel that the whole world is obsessed with you and your little ego, it loves you, it hates you, it's talking about you right now. The ocean makes you feel like the world is greeting y...

Continued from   " Quotes from the book "Stolen Focus" Part I " Flow state: This is when you are so absorbed in what you are doing that you lose all sense of yourself, and time seems to fall away, and you are flowing into the experience itself. Distraction and multitasking kill flow, and nobody will reach flow if they are trying to do two are more things at the same time. Flow requires all of your brainpower, deployed toward one mission. You have to be doing something that is meaningful to you. It will help if you are doing something that is at the edge of your abilities. Fragmentation makes you smaller, shallower, angrier. Flow makes you bigger, deeper, calmer. Fragmentation shrinks us. National sleep foundation has calculated that the amount of sleep we get has dropped by 20% in just a hundred years. If everyone sleep one hour more on an average, it would be an earthquake for our economic system.  Because our economic system has become dependent on sleep-depriving...

Year 2022 is kind to me several ways, Overall decent year I would say and here are somethings I really enjoyed. 663 miles ran during this year  It is more than the distance between Bentonville, AR to Minneapolis, MN. Read 18 books this year.  http://jnsuryaprakash.blogspot.com/2009/03/books-i-read.html for the books i read so far And here is my good reads link  https://www.goodreads.com/friend/i?feature=friend-invite-   url&invite_token=YzliNTcwNjItZmYwMi00YmZiLTk3ZDktYWRiNmY5OWRmYjIy 17 blogs written refer  http://jnsuryaprakash.blogspot.com/ More than 300 games of chess. Still struggling with ELO 1500 rated bots.

Interesting quotes from the book "Good Strategy/Bad Strategy - the difference and why it matters". You can't concentrate on the crisis if flying isn't automatic. If a chain must not fail, there is no point in strengthening only some of the links. Quality matters when quantity is an inadequate substitute. If a building contractor finds that her two-ton truck is on another job, she may easily substitute two one-ton trucks to carry landfill. On the other hand, if a three star chef is ill, no number of short-order cooks is an adequate replacement. As an investor, one wants to find limiting factors that can be fixed, such as paint, rather than factors that cannot be fixed, such as highway noise. If you have a special skill or insight at removing limiting factors, then you can be very successful. unfortunately, humans have put more effort, over more time, into thinking about war than any other subject. It is often said that a strategy is a choice or a decision.  Doing strat...