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...

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...