Surya Prakash Jayanti

  Here are interesting quotes from the book 'Tools of Titans' The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. The goal of investing has always been simple: To allocate resources to improve quality of life. All of my biggest wins have come from leveraging strengths instead of fixing weaknesses. Write to please just one person, yourself. Better to have and not need than to need and not have. Work will work when nothing else will work. Many a false step was made by standing still. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty. A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. My trauma therapist said every time you meet someone, just in you head say ,'I love you' before you have a conversation with them, and that conversation is going to go a lot better. Listening is about being present, not just being quiet. Just take on the pain, and wear it as a shirt. Two words for ...

Continuation from Part I ... Everyone wants to be brave, but no one wants to be vulnerable. Einstein said, " If I had an hour to solve problem, I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about solutions. Addiction is short term desire, purpose is long-term desire. If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake. Everyone wants to see themselves as a good person. The world needs healers and problems-solvers who use their hearts. Your heart is a million times more powerful than your brain. Ask yourself in a meeting, "Am I able to make a difference right now ?" Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise, instead, seek what they sought. The things you own end up owning you. Conventional wisdom that is more convention than wisdom. Your dreams are the blueprint to reality. I compartmentalize and DIN and DIP ( "do it now" and "do it proper") Always ask: wh...

This is one of the biggest books I ever read and also the best. Here are few quotes that hit me from the book "Tribe of Mentors" - Tim Ferriss. Pain is never out of season if you go shopping for it. Life punishes the vague wish and rewards the specific ask. The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes form having a question for everything. You don't success because you have no weaknesses; you succeed because you find your unique strengths and focus on the developing habits around them. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. The disease of our times is that we live on the surface. We're like the platter River, a mile wide and an inch deep. Not dead, can't quit. He had his employees rate new candidates on a scale of 1-10. The only stipulation was they couldn't choose 7. Intelligence is like following a GPS route right into a body of water until you drown. Wisdom looks at the route but, whe...