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Reaching your dream job
To find out what your dream job will be like, try to get an accurate picture of what the day-to-day is like. No job is 100% fulfilling all of the time.
Talk to people doing the job you want. Talk to people in the organization. Talk to the ones that enjoy it and to the ones who quit.
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Understanding probability
Understanding probability will help you get a more correct picture of the world and help you make better decisions.
Most of us fall prey to the same handful of issues beca...
Assuming events are independent when they are not
When two event are interconnected, the former happening increases or decreases the probability of the latter happening.
- Your car insurance gets more expensive after an accident because car accidents are not independent events. A person who gets in one is more likely to get into another in the future.
- Most of our plans don’t go as we’d like. We get delayed, we have to backtrack, we have to make unexpected changes. Sometimes we think we can compensate for a delay in one part of a plan by moving faster later on. But the parts of a plan are not independent. A delay in one area makes delays elsewhere more likely as problems compound and accumulate.
Not understanding when events are independent
In Naked Statistics, Charles Wheelan explains: “A different kind of mistake occurs when events that are independent are not treated as such . . . If you flip a fair coin 1,000,000 times and get 1,000,000 heads in a row, the probability of getting heads on the next flip is still 1/2. The very definition of statistical independence between two events is that the outcome of one has no effect on the outcome of another.”
“Curiosity is antifragile, like an addiction; magnified by attempts to satisfy it.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
25 Pages A Day
For developing the habits of reading, many follow the strategy of reading 25 pages a day, which can create your interest at a starting pace of time.
But while reading, if one finds reading joyful and interesting one can jump the stipulated limit of pages, accordingly.
Benefits Of Reading: Improved Insights
- Reading a few pages before sleeping or during a break opens the windows of the mind, nourishing the brain and promoting imagination and positivity.
- At 25 pages a day, an average person is reading 9125 pages in a year promoting the enhancing of skills, thoughts, vocabulary and knowledge. Plus reading is an addiction(albeit a good one!).
- Reading different genres develops the various regions of our brain, elevating innovative thoughts and cross-connection of fresh ideas.
Learning By Being In Play Mode
In both children and adults, being in ‘play mode’ is an essential and overlooked factor in the quest to learn about our surroundings, discovering our capabilities and finding new information. Not h...
The Opening Of Fresh Possibilities And New Horizons
When we take away the mind's impositions, restrictions, boundaries and the preset rules of how things should be, we can relook, dismantle and reform anything including how numbers and letters are represented or structured.
Getting Stuck On Numbers
- Number structures and counting systems have several advantages and disadvantages, and not all minds think in the same way when dealing with abstract concepts.
- Getting stuck on something is a boon, as it takes us towards the first principles, of what we are essentially trying to achieve.