Reading time – 3 minutes A rock does not adjust to its environment. Its shape is set in stone, literally. Water is malleable. It accommodates itself to its environment wherever it goes. It yields to everything and is therefore stopped by nothing. Hence Bruce Lee says: Be water, my friend. Adaptability and flexibility frequently appear …
In our world, the focus is on achieving more or obtaining more – more responsibility, more money, more promotions, and so on. The ‘addition‘ of something is usually a measure of success, and in many situations in our life, this is the correct approach. Equally useful as adding something to our lives is the subtraction of …
Antifragile Book Review Antifragile is one of the most thought-provoking books of recent times and brutally challenges conventional wisdom, our biases, and our view of the world. I promise you won’t look at academics, doctors, managers, Uber drivers and many others the same way. The book provides you with new lenses to view the world. …
The Zurich Axioms: The rules of risk and reward used by generations of Swiss bankers is all about risk and its management. Many people, probably most, want to win without betting. This book is about betting to win. If you do not mind taking reasonable risks – or better, if you enjoy risk, as the …
Heraclitus of Ephesus Twenty-five hundred years before Einstein, Heraclitus of Ephesus declared that energy is the essence of matter, that everything becomes energy in flux. Heraclitus is considered be one of the prominent thinkers of Stoic philosophy. (Read more about Stoic Philosophy.) His fondness for word play, and his belief in unity of opposites have resulted …
“Weakness and ignorance are not barriers to survival, but arrogance is” is an aphorism from Cixin Liu’s book Death’s End, a masterpiece of hard science fiction. Why an article about this phrase? In the current, mostly ‘locked’ down, state of human civilization, this phrase has profound relevance than in normal times. Also I love aphoristic phrases, for …
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