I definitely need to use my chances when they come because definitely there wont be many.

When you're good at something, make that everything.

What I think I've been able to do well over the years is play with pain, play with problems, play in all sorts of conditions.

You have to believe in the long-term plan you have but you need the short-term goals to motivate and inspire you.

The one thing you can do for sure is push the luck on your side.

I've always been aware that the image you patiently construct for an entire career can be ruined in a minute. It scares you a bit, but that's the way things are.

I fear no one, but respect everyone.

The more I lose, the more they believe they can beat me. But believing is not enough, you still have to beat me.

A man who wins, is a man who thinks he can.

There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it.

Success is a nice thing because it always means you've taken a step forward and it gives you a sense of pride, which in turn gives you confidence and experience-a positive circle, so to speak.

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A question that lingers in the minds of many working professionals, either experienced or freshers, is whether they should build their own startup or not.A study by Harvard has shown that there are three primary reasons people venture into startups:<ul><li>Many times, it's driven by a zest to really solve a problem that is faced by the future founder itself.</li><li>Sometimes, a major gap is discovered in an industry/sector that the future founder feels he can cover and make money.</li><li>The third reason is love for a particular industry/sector and motivation to grow aggressively..</li></ul>

Building One's Own Startup

Starting up due to Love for a particular industry is often the outcome of creative thinkers, who start their own firm, with the key investment being their creativity.Startup founders are divided into two buckets: Billionaires 1 & 2.

The Two Buckets Of Founders

We have met folks who are in their 40s and 50s who regret not working on a startup in their 20s. There are folks in their 20s who think they should build a startup once their life is settled off, probably in their late 30s or 40s. And then there are 19-year-olds who think they should start up after some experience. There is no right or wrong age, it's just a moment and the scenarios that help in making the decision.

The Bottom Line

Across all the three reasons and two buckets, a thing that's common is the endpoint. The startup works or it doesn’t. In either case, the founder benefits a lot. For he is someone who has learned real-life lessons, has donned multiple hats, has built a team, a product, a business stream, managed the branding, marketing, etc. These are all the things the founding team is actually expected to do and with this experience, any founder becomes a valuable asset to the organization.

The Endpoint

These are the ones who experiment right from their college days. Most of the time, they connect to the third reason for building a startup- creativity. They love a specific industry and really want to make their mark on it. The biggest advantage college students have is that of low liabilities and tons of resources.A downside is that it's often the first time that they are building anything, and as such, they often make a lot of mistakes, which might hamper the growth or development of their service/product.

Billionaires 1

These are folks who have worked in a particular industry for at least 3-4 years and have identified a gap, which forms the genesis of their startup vision. The gap can be something small, like optimization of a particular sales/marketing/manufacturing process, or building an entirely different operating and business model for the same industry.These folks are quite well suited for a startup, having prior professional experience, knowledge of how things work, soft skills, team building, management, etc.

Billionaires 2

The question, should you start up, is highly qualitative in nature. Is the problem statement you identified big enough? Do you have any liabilities? Would you be the one who can wear multiple hats for at least 1 year of the startup? Do you have co-founders who are with you on your vision? Do you have enough money in the bank that can sustain you for at least 6months? Do you have industry knowledge of the problem you are solving? A founder needs to be honest about the above questions and gauge independently the feasibility.

The Main Question

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Why Should You Startup?

There’s a popular adage in the fitness community that you never regret a workout. And while that generally may be true, there are simply some days your mind doesn’t care and urges you to avoid it anyway.This is not only perfectly normal; it’s totally acceptable. The notion that you should force yourself into tough workouts creates an unsustainable and poor relationship with exercise.

Fitness Freaks And Their Regimes

<ul><li>What you may have been able to conquer yesterday may not be the same today.</li><li>You will always have to take care of your fitness, but the way you move your body will change.</li><li>Your mind is just as important as your body. Just having a 'sweat session' isn't all there is to fitness.</li></ul>

Your Fitness Levels Can Change

Recovery is vital in any fitness routine. Recovery might mean simply walking or cycling to keep the body moving, or taking a break altogether ― and that’s OK. It’s all about listening to your body and not pushing yourself to a point where you end up hating exercise.Just as when you wake up feeling rested from a good night’s sleep, a rest day will give your body that same opportunity to meet your next workout with energy and enthusiasm.

Sometimes, Just Don’t Work Out

<ul><li>Your workout doesn't need to be long in order for you to reap the benefits</li><li>Finding an enjoyable way to move your body for a short period of time can be just as effective</li><li>It's not just about the workout. It's about your peace of mind and quality of life</li><li>Buy a  good workout set, because clothes make us feel good.</li></ul>

Commit to Doing Just a Few Minutes

<ul><li>Blast some good music before getting started</li><li>Keep it simple and relaxed. Don't pressure yourself to have your best performance.</li><li>Stretch or find a gentle way to move their body.</li><li>Prioritize stretching and foam rolling: use a foam roller to activate your glutes and other muscles to feel good each day.</li><li>Fitness feels easier when it's an activity you don't hate.</li><li>Find a fun way to move that feels more like play.</li></ul>

Keep It Moving, Keep It Fun

<ul><li>If you don't feel like going to the gym, don't pressure yourself to have the best workout, and instead encourage yourself to move for the sake of consistency, the next workout will be that much easier.</li><li>The act of restarting is most often more challenging than the workout itself.</li></ul>

The Bottom Line: Think About Your Future

If your head isn't into exercise or if you only have a few minutes to spare, this advice is for you.

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At the smallest level, nature is governed by quantum mechanics.  The quantum theory account for all the forces of nature but not gravity. When physicists try to apply quantum theory to gravity, space and time start to fluctuate wildly, almost as if falling apart. This is incompatible with the outcome of Einstein’s theory. Some physicists conclude that space and time may not be as fundamental as we thought. Instead, they seem more like byproducts of something deeper.

Nature at the smallest level

Space, time and gravity get weird when they are studied at a super subatomic scale, where the quantum nature of gravity starts to kick in. Albert Einstein taught us that space and time could warp and bend like a piece of fabric. We experience this warping of the space-time continuum as gravity. Einstein’s theory is mainly concerned with the largest scales of nature, the scale of stars, galaxies and the whole universe. It doesn’t look at space and time at the smallest scales.

The mystery of space, time and gravity

Technical issuesWhen you’re learning quantum mechanics as a student, you’re taught the classical model for something, then given rules for quantising that classical theory. However, classical theories do not define quantum theories very well. When you straightforwardly apply that quantisation procedure to gravity, it gives infinite crazy answers.Conceptual issuesWith gravity, you’re trying to combine many different possible geometries of space-time, meaning you’re not sure what time is or where things are in space because you don’t know the geometry of space.

Why it’s hard to find a theory that merges quantum theory and gravity

Both special relativity and general relativity are fundamentally classical theories. Classically, things have positions, and locations - positions and velocities. However, classical mechanics fail at small scales. This is where quantum mechanics becomes useful. Since the discovery of quantum mechanics, we have to take everything we know about nature and fit it into the quantum mechanical framework. Physicists can do that for almost everything they know about nature, except for gravity and curved space-time.

Classical vs quantum mechanics

The idea is that all the quantum mechanical information inside a black hole can in certain circumstances be considered as spread out on the boundary of the black hole.  If you think of the interior of the black hole as a three-dimensional region of space, and the boundary as a two-dimensional boundary, one can think of all the information of the black hole as being located on the boundary. That’s holography because there’s a two-dimensional boundary that is filling the three-dimensional inside.

The holographic principle

In theoretical physics, the AdS/CFT correspondence is called Maldacena duality or gauge/gravity duality. <ul><li>Juan Maldacena applied the holographic principle to black holes and anti-de Sitter space. Because there’s no gravity there, you can define quantum field theory on it and have no conceptual issues quantising it.</li><li>Mark Van Raamsdonk, Brian Swingle and others pointed out that if you fiddle with the amount of entanglement between different parts of the quantum field theory on the boundary without gravity, the geometry of the anti-de Sitter space inside changes in response to that.</li></ul>

Some try to derive gravity from quantum field theories that don’t have gravity in them

Consider gas in a box. A box full of some gaseous substance is made of atoms and molecules. When we look at the gas in the box with our eyes, or our thermometers, we don’t see each individual atom or molecule, its position and velocity. We see coarse-grained features of the system. We can invent a predictive theory of what the gas is going to do based on the coarse-grained macroscopic observables. We can model things without knowing what every atom is doing. That’s emergence. You have a set of properties that are approximate and coarse-grained.

The emergence of space-time

The Higgs boson is a real particle but it’s hard to detect because it has a very short lifetime and quickly decays into other particles. It can decay into two particles, an electron and a positron. When you consider quantum mechanics, you can predict roughly how long it will take the Higgs boson to decay, but when it spits out that electron and positron, you can’t predict the direction in which they will move. Entanglement is the fact that you cannot separately predict what the observational outcome will be for the electron and positron.

Entanglement

The particles and forces of the world come from fields that spread all throughout space and time and have a quantum mechanical nature. There’s a quantum mechanical field for the photon, the gluon, the Higgs boson, for gravity, etc. But the important thing to remember about field theory is that even in empty space, there are still fields. They are in their lowest-energy state or zero value.  When you take two different points of space-time at some distance between them there are still things there. The quantum state of the fields at these two points in space is always going to be entangled.

The world is run by what is called quantum field theory

Classically, for a particle, you have a clear idea of where a particle is and how fast it’s moving. And you can measure whatever you want. However, there is less agreement on what quantum mechanics is saying because you have to use words like "measurement" and "observation." You can observe things such as the position or velocity of a particle, but can't measure it. When you extend that to gravity, things like location in space don’t exist. They are some approximations that you get at the classical level in the right circumstances.

Observation and measurement

Strange things happen when you try to combine Einstein’s description of curved space-time with a universe made up of quantum wavefunctions.  This podcast shows how space and time are emergent properties of quantum reality but not fundamental parts of it.

Einstein’s description of curved space-time doesn’t easily mesh with a universe made up of quantum wavefunctions. Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll discusses the quest for quantum gravity with host Steven Strogatz.            The post Where Do Space, Time and Gravity Come From? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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The mathematician and author Steven Strogatz interviews leading researchers about the great scientific and mathematical questions of our time.

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To find your specific muscle fibre ratio, plug a recent 5K time into a race equivalency calculator, then compare it to your marathon results. <ul><li>If a 5K time suggests you can run a 3:59 marathon, but your real marathon time is 4:10, you may be stronger at shorter races that need fast-twitch muscle fibres.</li><li>If your marathon time is 3:45, you may have more slow-twitch fibres.</li></ul>

Establish your specific muscle fibre ratio

Examples of lower mileage training plans:<ul><li>Athletes can do two harder but longer-distance sessions per week, with a shorter recovery run the next day.</li><li>Athletes can run four or five days per week with just one hard workout, such as 200-meter intervals. Long runs with varied intensity count as a quality session. </li></ul> Expert trainers advise you don't need to supplement your days off with another form of cardio to cross-train. Cross-training sessions depend on your schedule and motivations. Other experts believe it's better to let your body fully recover on days you're not running.

How to pack more quality into lower-mileage training plans

<ul><li>Fast-twitch fibres have a more powerful force but fatigue quickly. </li><li>Slow-twitch muscle fibers are less powerful but more fatigue-resistant. </li><li>Our muscles contain both types, but your personal ratio can vary.</li></ul> A 2020 study found that runners with more fast-twitch muscle fibres were more likely to suffer from short-term performance dips after periods of higher-volume training. It means that if you’re a fast-twitch athlete trying to push the same training as a slower-twitch athlete, it may actually make you get slower.

The difference between fast-twitch fibres and slow-twitch fibres

<ul><li>You’re constantly dealing with soreness, fatigue, overuse injuries, or aiming for high numbers for their own sake.</li><li>If you get out for a run, are breathing normally, and running at a pace that should be easy, but you find that your legs just don’t want to move.</li><li>Watch out for an increase in your resting heart rate. You need to make serious adjustments if it is more than 10 percent for a couple of months.</li></ul>

Signs of overtraining

Regular strength workouts is a key component to strong performances. For example, a combination of weight-lifting and plyometric exercises, such as 5 sets each of barbell squats, weighted box jumps with dumbbells, and non-weighted box jumps, as well as separate 20-minute banded exercise sessions.

Strength workouts

Runners may get caught up in the idea that in order to see gains, you have to do more. However, experts say that running is an individualised sport, and the volume and intensity to perform optimally depend on fast-twitch and slow-twitch muscle fibre predisposition.

Running is individualised

<ul><li>Listen to your body and write down notes that you’ll learn from.</li><li>Comparison can steal your joy for running. Social media only tells a fraction of the picture. We continually forget what works for us and then get scared or insecure based on what we see others doing.</li></ul>

Take personal notes and avoid comparison

Most people aren't suited for higher mileage. Professional athletes go home after their workouts; they're eating well, they're stretching and sleeping. The average person with a full-time job is likely not sleeping enough and knows it's unsustainable to put that much volume in their running. Furthermore, pushing higher may result in getting broken down and injuries.

Lifestyle factors play a role

For some runners, from recreational to sub-elite and even the pros, less truly is more when it comes to reaping gains.

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Why Should You Startup?

What Fitness Pros Do When They Don't Feel Like Working Out

It's time to Read like a Pro.

Where Do Space, Time and Gravity Come From?

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It's time to
Read like a Pro.