Surya Prakash Jayanti

This collection of quotes made me pause for a moment. Thinking is an excellent servant and terrible master. Money is like gas on a road trip, you don't want to run out of gas. But at the same time, you are not doing a tour of gas stations. Suffering = pain X resistance Rain philosophy = (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture) What you resist persists. If you have one foot in the future and one foot in the past, you are pissing on the present. Not my will but the hearts will be done. Let go what goes, let come what comes, let remain what remains. I am not ok, you are not ok, that's ok. Two great disappointments in life, not getting what you want and getting what you want. Simple, patience, and compassion are the real values. When a person doesn't have any problem, the mind invents them. Are you self-aware to ask yourself WHY, when you are emotional? Whats your value system? What are metrics? Hiroo Onoda : A Soldier never surrendered. Read the link, very interesting story. ...

Here is a collection of quotes that made me stop and think for a moment. Amateurs have a goal. Professionals have a system. Focus on doing the best consistently, that is more valuable than being the best in the room, your energy will be deviated with the defense and offense you need to play to prove in the later case. DunnKruger effect and imposter syndrome: The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias that occurs when people with limited knowledge or competence in a specific area overestimate their abilities. Imposter syndrome is when you doubt your own skills and successes. You feel you're not as talented or worthy as others believe, and you're scared that one day, people will realize that. Arrogance = Ignorance + conviction Preacher, Prosecutor and Politician: As we think and talk, we often slip into the mindsets of three different professions: preachers, prosecutors, and politicians. In each of these modes, we take on a particular identity and use a distinct set of tools. ...

This interesting book exposed me to Toltec philosophy. It's always fascinating to know cultures and philosophies from across the world. Here are some interesting quotes from the book "The Four Agreements" by Don Miguel Ruiz. Dreaming is the main function of the mind, and the mind dreams 24 hours a day. It dreams when the brain is awake and it also dreams when the brain is asleep. The difference is that when the brain is awake, there is a material frame that makes us perceive things in a linear way. We have a powerful memory. We make a mistake, we judge ourselves, we find ourselves guilty and we punish ourselves. Your whole mind is fog, which Toltec called "mitote". Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves, and it is the judge, the Victim, and the belief system that makes us do this. If someone abuses you a little more than you abuse yourself, you will probably walk away from that person. But if someone abuses you a little less than you abuse yourself, you w...

Here are my achievements in the year 2024. Learned to swim this year. It takes a lot of work to learn new skills in your mid-life. The top 3% of the Duolingo Spanish learners, have close to 50 hours of learning. 90 percentile in the Chess.com app More than 25 blog posts and close to 14K hits on the blog overall. More than 2 blood donations and some level of volunteering activity in the community. Ran more than 1100 Kilometers (725 miles) for the year, close to the definition of a "serious runner" Serious runners:   More dedicated runners often aim for 1000 miles or more per year.   I read over 56 books for the year, so I consider myself a "Serious reader". Serious reader:  A "bookworm" is considered someone who reads significantly more than the average, often reaching 50 or more books per year. Delivered some phenomenal platform K8s capabilities impacting Fortune 1 company. Delivered round tables and speeches for MBA class. Books read in 2024 Blogposts in ...

Here are some collected thoughts and quotes I grabbed overtime from different places. “The cold water doesn't get warmer if you jump late.”  “You don't need more intensity; you need more consistency. Intensity impresses; consistency transforms.” “We want the outcome, but we need the journey." Your body reflects what you eat. Your mind reflects what you consume.  For a healthy body, choose whole foods. For a sharp mind, choose lasting knowledge.  “Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.” It is not necessary to agree on everything in order to show kindness. Calm silence, sincerity, and courteous words, whether one is agreeing or disagreeing with others, mark the person who knows how to behave. “Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway. Stupidity is the same. And that's why life is hard.”  — Jeremy Goldberg  “Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.” So much can be ac...

This is a fascinating book by Meghan O'Gieblyn. This mixes philosophy, spirituality, theology, Artificial Intelligence, and human thought evaluation. Here are a few interesting quotes from the book that struck me. The actual molecules of water change every millisecond, but the pattern persists for hours or even years. Our new digital selves will entirely lack subjective experience, the phenomenon we most often associate with words like "spirit" and "soul". Intelligence is in the eye of the observer. Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. Selfish conduct is rooted in the belief that we are wholly separate and distinct individuals. We must abandon the idea, that humans are at the center of the ethical universe and bestow value on the rest of the natural world only insofar as it suits humanity's ends. Saying about philosophers: "One starts as a materialist, then one becomes a dualist, then a panpsychist, and one ends up ...