The author Radhakrishnan Pillai has excellent research on Chanakya's Arthshaastra, the book of economics and management from 4th century B.C.

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Becoming rich may be a desire as living poor is not a choice but circumstances. Gone are days when only kings and ministers can become rich, today with the knowledge and right mentorship, anyone can fulfill their dream of becoming rich.

Introduction

Chanakya, also known as Vishnugupta or Kautilya was known as a strategic, diplomat, politician, economist and a sharp thinker. His ideas of waelth and management is immortal.

The king Chandragupta was a student of Chanakya. Although he came from lower-cast village of that time, with right training from Chanaya, he became a worthy king. Alexander the great was also defeated against Chanakya's intellect and couldn't extend their empire to India.

Chanakya's Arthshaastra, written 2400 years ago, composed of 6000 sutras Or aphorisms, was based on economic policy, political governance and military strategy. It talked about wealth identification, wealth creation, wealth management and wealth distribution.

The method of aanvikshiki is the science and art of thinking. In Sanskrit, anu means atom or the smallest particle and ikshiki means one who wants to know. Chanakya explained aanvikshiki in Arthshaastra as constituents of Sankhya (concept of Shiva and Shakti and relating to numbers or mathematical thinking), Yoga (ability to keep our mind steady and firm under stress), Lokayata (worldview of people, who believes in data and the reality). In essence, clear thinking is necessary to earn money and run a business.

Understanding Aanvikshiki

One can only earn big money through right and legal process. Who become rich through shortcuts are bound to have troubles in the long run. The Vedas has guided us about the ethics and dilemmas of good and bad. It is better to ask the experts of the field before taking such ethical decisions. Studying the business plan by experts, government policies, annual budgets of the government, SWOT (strength, weakness, opportunity, threat) analysis etc can help. The real principle of wealth is to give

Thinking Your Way to Prosperity

A steady mind is required to have better clarity in thinking. You become whatever you think. Therefore, think before you act. Also, be mindful of your duties and respectful of laws of the land.

There exists common patterns that we can learn from wealthy people to become rich. They love their work, committed to it and don't show off stuffs to look rich, instead they are rich. They do social work, charity and contribute to the welfare of the people. There are 4 stages of wealth that have been observed for long time

Stages Of Wealth

Wealth identification : Idea + application = money. What is the one thing with which you can make money? Identify your natural talents and the skills that you can gain from practice. Wealth creation : talent + hard work + being active + intellectual property rights and patentWealth management : saving + invest, also investment > saving. Wealth distribution : for social norm among rich, for the love of donating and helping the poor.

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Keeping tracks of money coming and going out is very important. There are various accounting systems that one can follow. The financial health depends on this accounting. Few examples of accounting systems are the balance sheet and profit-and-loss (P&L) statements, Enterprise resource planning (ERP) etc. One should never be dependent on any one source of income. Defining accounting requirements and reviewing the accounts are important. This can be done from daily to yearly basis.

Accounting System

It is mandatory to have a mentor for teaching you the methods and the way towards your goal. Your mentor should be himself expert in your field, here the finance and management, should be rich enough, genuine background, integrity towards moral values. Chanakya says it is better to have upto third opinion from 3 different experts but not more than them, non-expert opinions should be avoided. Age and maturity are not synonymous. Maturity comes from knowledge and deep thinking.

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Three principles of becoming rich:1. Be trustworthy,2. Don't break promises, 3. Repay any debts or loans with interest and when giving money, don't belittle them for taking money from you.Chanakya also mentioned about partnering with other firms to do a part of the business which otherwise takes lot of effort and time. ﻿

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life- think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscle, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

Generalizing all the rich people as selfish or demeaning towards everyone won't help you becoming rich. You have to identify the good ones among them, follow their footprint and learn from them. The rich leaders stands out among the rich individuals and they can make people around them rich as well. The rich leaders started alone, didn't give up to the atrocities and in the path of his glory, he picked everyone around him rise up the ladde

Becoming A Rich Leader

Think from different dimensions<ol><li class="ql-align-justify">Directly seeing and understanding: just looking around for opportunity</li><li class="ql-align-justify">The unseen: by consulting with experts and listening to their ideas</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Inference: conclusion from logical thinking of association, intuition</li></ol>Do research on trends. Think deep and wide, analyse, infer, develop own insight and foresight.

Thinking Makes A Person A Leader

Once a businessman met Chanakya when he was working under a lamp. After finishing his work, he turned off that lamp and lit another one to discuss with the businessman. When asked why he didn't use the same lamp, Chanakya said that the first lamp was given to him for his official work only and the second one was his personal. He never mixed up his official belonging to personal benefits. He taught us that self regulation is more important than being regulated by the government, you can cheat the world, but you can not cheat yourself.

Teaching By Example

Chanakya emphasized on filling the treasury before serving the country. The food for the labourers and the armies for their work should not be exhausted. He made sure the corrupt officials get punished and the genuine and devoted workers get rewards and promotions. Chanakya made regulations for textile industries to give economic freedom and financial empowerment to women. He personally interrogated any problems women in these days faced and took appropy actions against atrocities. "Empower a woman and you can be sure her family will be empowered too."

Wealth should free us from worldly challenges. Instead, most of the time, wealth and money get us more and more entangled in them. Money should give us not just comforts, but dignity to ourselves and to others. Kosha Or treasury is the fund that is required to run the state. It is extremely important to keep our financial situation strong and steady. The 4 steps in finance in a project are creation, completion, maintenance and sustainability.

The Importance Of Kosha

The author had listed few questions to develop one's financial status. <ol><li>What is your current financial status? </li><li>What are your financial goals? </li><li>Who are your financial mentors and gurus? </li><li>What modern knowledge of finance do you lack? </li><li>Why do you want to become rich? </li><li>What is stopping you from becoming rich? </li><li>What will you do with all the extra wealth you have? </li><li>What is your idea of spirituality and wealth? </li><li>If you were to decide the financial policies of the country, what would you suggest? </li><li>What would you like to teach others about wealth and money</li></ol>

Questions To Contempl

The book has changed and rewrite my thinking about becoming rich and its emphasis on thinking itself make me share the knowledge of the book. 

Chanakya's Arthashastra is an unrivalled political treatise that has been used by scholars, academics and leaders across the world. In Chanakya and the Art of Getting Rich, Radhakrishnan Pillai brings out the inherent lessons from Arthashastra to present a strategic and practical way of wealth creation. This is a holistic study, written for anyone and everyone.

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Chanakya's Arthashastra is an unrivalled political treatise that has been used by scholars, academics and leaders across the world. In Chanakya and the Art of Getting Rich, Radhakrishnan Pillai brings out the inherent lessons from Arthashastra to present a strategic and practical way of wealth creation. This is a holistic study, written for anyone and everyone.

Radhakrishnan Pillai

Chanakya and the Art of Getting Rich

"Clear thinker" is a better compliment than "smart"<ol><li>Real knowledge is intrinsic and it's built from the ground up.</li><li>The smart thinkers understand the basics at a very fundamental level.</li><li>If you can't rederive concepts from the basics as you need them, you are lost.</li><li>Clear thinkers appeal to their own authority</li><li>The advanced concepts in a field are less proven. We use them to signal insider knowledge, but we'd be better off nailing the basics.</li></ol>

How To Think Clearly

I started this book as any other self help book. However,  it is different because Naval interconnects various concepts in a very clear way. Even though it's a small book. It will take more time to fully absorb his theories. Putting it out there so I can remember his words and embody the mindset.

Getting rich is not just about luck; happiness is not just a trait we are born with. These aspirations may seem out of reach, but building wealth and being happy are skills we can learn. So what are these skills, and how do we learn them? What are the principles that should guide our efforts? What does progress really look like? Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur, philosopher, and investor who has captivated the world with his principles for building wealth and creating long-term happiness. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant is a collection of Naval's wisdom and experience from the last ten years, shared as a curation of his most insightful interviews and poignant reflections. This isn't a how-to book, or a step-by-step gimmick. Instead, through Naval's own words, you will learn how to walk your own unique path toward a happier, wealthier life.

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Personal Development

Getting rich is not just about luck; happiness is not just a trait we are born with. These aspirations may seem out of reach, but building wealth and being happy are skills we can learn. So what are these skills, and how do we learn them? What are the principles that should guide our efforts? What does progress really look like? Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur, philosopher, and investor who has captivated the world with his principles for building wealth and creating long-term happiness. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant is a collection of Naval's wisdom and experience from the last ten years, shared as a curation of his most insightful interviews and poignant reflections. This isn't a how-to book, or a step-by-step gimmick. Instead, through Naval's own words, you will learn how to walk your own unique path toward a happier, wealthier life.

Eric Jorgenson is an entrepreneur, writer, and investor. He is on the founding team of Zaarly, and has been publishing online since 2014. His blog has educated and entertained over a million readers.Eric is on a quest to create (and eat) the perfect sandwich. He tweets at @ericjorgenson and publishes new pieces and projects on ejorgenson.com/blog

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The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

Alan Watts was a British philosopher, writer, and teacher credited with bringing Eastern philosophy to a wide audience in the West; philosophy that included Buddhism, Taosim, and Hinduism.Writing over 25 books and articles on the subject of religion and philosophy, Watts believed that philosophy, such as Buddhism, could be used as psychotherapy.Here are some of his best quotes:

Alan Watts

“Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.”

“You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself."

“You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.”

“Tomorrow and plans for tomorrow can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present, since it is in the present and only in the present that you live. There is no other reality than present reality, so that, even if one were to live for endless ages, to live for the future would be to miss the point everlastingly.”

“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”

“When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.”

“I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.”

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”

“A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.”

“If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.”

“Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.”

“The only Zen you’ll find on mountain tops is the Zen you bring up there with you.”

“What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.”

“Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.”

“Philosophy is man’s <a href="https://wealthygorilla.com/5-ways-curiosity-can-breed-success/">expression of curiosity </a>about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect.”

“Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social environment.”

“What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things.” ﻿

“When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.” –

Alan Watts was a British philosopher and writer. Here are some of his quotes on life, zen, wealth, Buddhism, spirituality, power and lot's more. 

Alan Watts quotes are commonplace today. Watts was a British philosopher, 
writer, and teacher credited with bringing Eastern philosophy to a wide 
audience in the West; philosophy that included Buddhism, Taosim, and 
Hinduism. Writing over 25 books and articles on the subject of religion and 
philosophy, Watts believed that philosophy, such as Buddhism, could be used 
as psychotherapy.

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Communication

Alan Watts Quotes

We all have a mind, Please don't mind😅Thoughts are generated from our eyes and ears, as "What we See and Listen is what we become"And these generated thoughts feeded into our mind and then when we make any decisions, conclusions and every thinkingMakes a Thought Process

Thought Process

Don't think about removing bad thoughts, Think about adding good thoughts, So that no space left for any bad thoughts in your mind.Mind is what, Your brain and Your brain is your remote, don't give this remote to others.

How to Remove bad thought Processes

If your answer to the above question is YES, then you already have power for making good thoughts because you know your faults and that's your power.

If You Already Have Bad Thoughts ?

THANK YOU SO MUCHDo like this thoughtForYourself

READ THIS AND IT WILL BE VERY IMPORTANT FOR YOU

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Thoughts

One doesn't need to know every possible events and interactions among them which can happen within a certain domain of theorical knowledge and or experience, in order to rightly judge, plan and act on a certain situation belonging to that domain, if one knows the essentials which are the basis that guide those events and interactios and therefore, in some extent, the ways of solving never before seen problems as well.

On essential knowledge and experience in the process of learning

The capability of solving specific problems using essential knowledge, is the skill of generalization, that is, applying one or a set of very basic knowledge in the most diverse class of problems belonging to a certain domain or even from different domains that intersect in some extent.

The skill of generalization

Try it out.

From a general idea, specif methods and ideas can be derived.

This is a brief insight on the importance of essential knowledge in the process of learning and solving problems.

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Learning & Education

Solving and learning, from general to specific.

The trope that the human brain didn’t evolve to understand advanced physics is often applied in popular science.After all, early humans’ priorities were constricted to comprehending and contending with predatory threats, learning how to feed themselves and their group, seeking out conditions that were favourable to the functioning of their bodies, and deciding who might make a good candidate to produce offspring with.

Uncomplicated Knowledge

The laws of classical physics, which relate to Newtonian concepts like velocity and momentum, seem to make sense to us because they describe the behaviour of objects in the world as we<a href="https://www.pnas.org/content/113/34/E5072.short"> experience</a> them. When Isaac Newton declared that an object will only change its motion if a force acts upon it, we found this easy to understand because it relates directly to our perception of how things move and behave in the world.

The Physics Laws We Understand

Some post-classical concepts introduced by modern physics — such as entanglement, dark matter and the multiverse — seem to be at odds with what our common sense tells us about the world. And we often explain the counter-intuitiveness of ideas like non-local particle dynamics, wave-particle duality and the potential of a near-infinite number of possible realities by invoking that popular trope: These concepts seem to be outside the pay grade of our specialized cognitive machinery.

Where No Mind Has Gone Before

When they asked trained physicists to think about specific physics concepts last year, the researchers found that expert knowledge in physics has a neural trace that is measurable and is somewhat similar across experts. We could identify concepts across individuals even when they were trained in different systems and had different first languages. We may be able to assess knowledge in students by comparing it to the expert’s knowledge brain state because it is measurable and consistent across experts.

The Research Findings

The nature of many post-classical concepts requires the consideration of alternative possible worlds, such as the multiverse concept that many comic book fans are familiar with. Regions of the brain that were associated with hypothetical or speculative reasoning in<a href="https://www.mpi.nl/publications/item2506536/distinguishable-memory-retrieval-networks-collaboratively-and-non"> previous research</a> played a significant role in the neural signatures of post-classical concepts that required this type of abstract thinking.

Rethinking Thinking

String theory, quantum gravity, time dilation. Why do these advanced physics concepts come easily to some of us but not others?

How Our Brains Organize Abstract Scientific Concepts

Albert Camus was a French philosopher, author, and journalist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957.Camus' own philosophy was grounded in absurdism, which refers to the inherent conflict.This conflict often causes a certain amount of tension, and these tensions can cause anxiety and doubt if left unresolved.<ul><li> Many believe that life has no inherent meaning, and it is therefore up to us to decide our own meaning.</li><li> Others believe that meaning can be found in the world around us, and we have to be open to it when it presents itself.</li></ul>Here are some of his philosophical quotes:

Albert Camus

The evil in the world comes almost always from ignorance, and goodwill can cause as much damage as ill-will if it is not enlightened. People are more often good than bad, though in fact that is not the question. But they are more or less ignorant and this is what one calls vice or virtue, the most appalling vice being the ignorance that thinks it knows everything and which consequently authorizes itself to kill. The murderer's soul is blind, and there is no true goodness or fine love without the greatest possible degree of clear-sightedness

I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one.

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

Don’t walk in front of me… I may not followDon’t walk behind me… I may not leadWalk beside me… just be my friend

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules.

In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.

You’re worried about getting things successfully done in order to attain some degree of self-worth. Your soul is for sale; You most likely deceive yourself in order to convince yourself. Letting go equals failing, isn’t that right? And you forget outstandingly well, don’t you? You forget that It takes admirable courage not only to try but also to gracefully give up.

I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.

Albert Camus was a French philosopher, author, and journalist, awarded the 
Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957.

His work includes The Stranger, The Plague, The Fall and The Rebel. Camus' 
own philosophy was grounded in absurdism, which refers to the inherent 
conflict present in many of us when we have a tendency to seek meaning and 
value in life but are ultimately unable to find it with certainty.

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Motivation & Inspiration

Albert Camus: Greatest Quotes

<ul>
<li>Always consider the context. Everything is a part of a system, and you can get into trouble by only considering things in isolation.</li>
<li>Use rules for novices, intuition for experts. This is one of the core principles of the Dreyfus skill model.</li>
<li>Know what you don’t know, be humble about your understanding and assume you don’t have a complete understanding or the full picture.</li>
<li> Learn by watching and imitating, not by being lectured at.</li>
<li>Keep practicing in order to remain an expert.</li>
<li>Avoid formal methods if you need creativity, intuition, or inventiveness.</li>
</ul>

The Recipe For Learning

<ul>
<li>Capture all of your ideas, such as in a notebook, to get more of them.</li>
<li>Strive for good design, it really works better.</li>
<li>The more senses you engage in a task, the more involved and focused your brain will be. Fiddling, music, walking, etc.</li>
<li>Step away from the keyboard from time to time to solve hard problems.</li>
<li>Change your viewpoint to solve the problem: look at it in reverse, or exaggerate it.</li>
<li>Watch for outliers: rarely doesn’t mean never.</li>
<li> Be comfortable with uncertainty.</li>
<li>Trust ink over memory, every mental read is a write.</li>
</ul>

Learning How To Learn

<ul>
<li>Hedge your bets with diversity.</li>
<li>Allow for different bugs in different people.</li>
<li>Act like you’ve evolved, breathe, don’t hiss.</li>
<li>Trust intuition, but verify.</li>
<li>Create SMART objectives to reach your goals.</li>
<li>Plan your investment in learning deliberately and developing your mind.</li>
<li>Discover how you learn best, it might not be like other people.</li>
<li>Form study groups to learn and teach.</li>
<li> Read deliberately.</li>
<li>To learn better: see it, do it, and teach it.</li>
<li>Play more in order to learn more.</li>
<li>Learn from similarities, unlearn from differences.</li>
<li>Explore, invent, and apply in your environment—safely.</li>
<li>See without judging and then act.</li>
</ul>

Tips And Tricks: Better Thinking And Learning

<ul>
<li>Give yourself permission to fail; it’s the path to success.</li>
<li>Groove your mind for success through envisioning it.</li>
<li>Learn to pay attention.</li>
<li>Make thinking time.</li>
<li>Use a personal wiki to organize your knowledge and learning.</li>
<li>Establish rules of engagement to manage interruptions.</li>
<li>Send less email and you’ll receive less.</li>
<li>Choose your own tempo for an email conversation, you can slow it down.</li>
<li>Hide interruptions to maintain focus.</li>
<li>Use multiple monitors to avoid context switching.</li>
<li>Optimize your personal workflow to maximize context.</li>
<li>Grab the wheel, you can’t steer on autopilot.</li>
</ul>

Better Retention And Organization

Questions to ask yourself to challenge your intuition:<ul><li>How do you know?</li><li>Says who?</li><li>How specifically?</li><li>How does what I’m doing cause you to…?</li><li>Compared to what or whom?</li><li>Does it always happen?</li><li>Can you think of an exception?</li><li>What would happen if you did (or didn’t)?</li><li>What stops you from…?</li></ul>

Challenge Your Intuition

The planning is more important than the plan. 
Just because your plan is likely to change doesn’t mean planning isn’t valuable.

Planning Is Important Even If There Is Deviation

<ul><li>Survey: Scan the table of contents and chapter summaries for an overview.</li><li>Question: Note any questions you have.</li><li>Read: Read in its entirety.</li><li>Recite: Summarize, take notes, and put in your own words.</li><li>Review: Reread, expand notes, and discuss with colleagues.</li></ul>

Make Reading More Effective

If you can’t think of three ways a plan can go wrong or three different solution to a problem, then you haven’t thought about it hard enough.

The Rule of Three

<ul>
<li>You can’t just rely on a good teacher. A teacher doesn’t just teach, a student must also do the learning, and you must know how to learn effectively.</li>
<li>Uncorrected problems that you’re aware of only get worse. Fix them as soon as possible.</li>
</ul>

Other Notes

Printed in full color. Software development happens in your head. Not in an editor, IDE, or designtool. You're well educated on how to work with software and hardware, but what about wetware--our own brains? Learning new skills and new technology is critical to your career, and it's all in your head. In this book by Andy Hunt, you'll learn how our brains are wired, and how to take advantage of your brain's architecture. You'll learn new tricks and tipsto learn more, faster, and retain more of what you learn. You need a pragmatic approach to thinking and learning. You need to Refactor Your Wetware. Programmers have to learn constantly; not just the stereotypical new technologies, but also the problem domain of the application, the whims of the user community, the quirks of your teammates, the shifting sands of the industry, and the evolving characteristics of the project itself as it is built. We'll journey together through bits of cognitive and neuroscience, learning and behavioral theory. You'll see some surprising aspects of how our brains work, and how you can take advantage of the system to improve your own learning and thinking skills. In this book you'll learn how to: Use the Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition to become more expert Leverage the architecture of the brain to strengthen different thinking modes Avoid common "known bugs" in your mind Learn more deliberately and more effectively Manage knowledge more efficiently

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Problem Solving

Printed in full color. Software development happens in your head. Not in an editor, IDE, or designtool. You're well educated on how to work with software and hardware, but what about wetware--our own brains? Learning new skills and new technology is critical to your career, and it's all in your head. In this book by Andy Hunt, you'll learn how our brains are wired, and how to take advantage of your brain's architecture. You'll learn new tricks and tipsto learn more, faster, and retain more of what you learn. You need a pragmatic approach to thinking and learning. You need to Refactor Your Wetware. Programmers have to learn constantly; not just the stereotypical new technologies, but also the problem domain of the application, the whims of the user community, the quirks of your teammates, the shifting sands of the industry, and the evolving characteristics of the project itself as it is built. We'll journey together through bits of cognitive and neuroscience, learning and behavioral theory. You'll see some surprising aspects of how our brains work, and how you can take advantage of the system to improve your own learning and thinking skills.In this book you'll learn how to: Use the Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition to become more expert Leverage the architecture of the brain to strengthen different thinking modes Avoid common &quot;known bugs&quot; in your mind Learn more deliberately and more effectively Manage knowledge more efficiently

Andy Hunt

Pragmatic Thinking and Learning

<ul><li>Concrete thinking is closely related to experiences that can be directly observed. It involves everyday, tangible facts and physical objects. </li><li>On the other hand, abstract thinking is a higher-order reasoning skill. It deals with conceptual ideas, patterns, and theories. </li></ul>Another way to put it is that concrete thinking asks how whereas abstract thinking asks why.

The difference between concrete and abstract thinking

It is possible to improve your abstract reasoning skills.<ul><li>Reframe the question. Go from “how?” to “why?” in order to take a step-back and tap into your abstract reasoning skills</li><li>Look for patterns. Instead of looking at each concrete element in isolation, practice networked thinking to uncover abstract patterns and underlying dynamics in the relationship between those elements. </li><li>Take inspiration from abstract thinkers. Philosophers, artists, and scientists are great abstract thinkers. </li></ul>

Three concrete ways to practice abstract thinking

As with any powerful tool, abstract thinking can be a double-edged sword.<ul><li> First, abstract thinking without concrete thinking amounts to imagination without execution. Once you have figured out why an idea needs to see the light of day, you need to think about how you will make it happen. </li><li>It can also be dangerous for your mental health to always default to abstract thinking, especially when thinking about past events. Psychology researchers explain that “abstract rumination is characteristic of depressed individuals, as is the tendency to experience post-decisional regret.”</li></ul>

A balancing game

Abstract thinking is a higher-order reasoning skill which deals with conceptual ideas, patterns, and theories.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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The art and science of abstract thinking

Tolkien is most famous for writing the Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings books, each of which is fantastic in it’s own right.However, there is a fair amount of wisdom in the pages of his writing, and some of it can be used to help us through different challenges and adversities in life.For many, good philosophy is practical philosophy, and the best practical philosophy are those concepts that transcend the situations in which they’re written and apply broadly across multiple areas of life.Here are some of the best quotes of Tolkien:

J. R. R. Tolkien

All that is gold does not glitter,Not all those who wander are lost;The old that is strong does not wither,Deep roots are not reached by the frost.From the ashes a fire shall be woken,A light from the shadows shall spring;Renewed shall be blade that was broken,The crownless again shall be king.

I have found that it is the small everyday deed of ordinary folks that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.

“Even the smallest person can change the course of the future."

It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.

The wise speak only of what they know

“Darkness must pass, a new day will come. And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer."

“The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places. But still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands, love is now mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater."

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.

“Little by little, one travels far."

Courage is found in unlikely places.

J. R. R . Tolkien is famous for his books The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Here are some of his best philosophical quotes

J.R.R. Tolkien Quotes - Philosophy For Life

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