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It took thousands of years for the European culture to realise that a child is not an object but a human being.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote in Emile, or On Education (1762), that "nature wants children to be children before they are men." He did not see children as humans but appealed to parents to look after their offspring. However, he did not take his own ideas to heart and abandoned his offspring at birth.
The Japanese have a secret that embodies the idea of happiness in living, and it is called Ikigai.
Essentially, Ikigai, loosely translated to life value, or life worth, is a concept of living that the Japanese culture imbibes for decades.
Doing more in less time is not the ultimate solution to productivity. It's the path to burnout.
Productivity rests more on small improvements. By focusing on the small things, the big things will take care of themselves.
“What Sherlock Holmes offers isn’t just a way of solving a crime. It is an entire way of thinking."
"Holmes provides... an education in improving our faculty of mindful thought and in using it in order to accomplish more, think better, and decide more optimally." - Ellen Langer
When an idea becomes your obsession and purpose, and it is highly personal to you, then you can take that idea and quickly turn it into a reality.
Ideas can only truly catch hold if they are embedded within a deeply emotional experience that reshapes how you view your identity and purpose in life.
Where you are right now is a sum total of your starting point, your character and your environment.
Our character, personality traits, behavioural patterns, level of awareness, and decision-making skills form a set of variables that define the outcome of our life. Another set of variables is what we get in our environment, like our upbringing, and the people around us.
- Better self-discipline
- Improving persuasion skills
- Cultivating self-awareness
- Better decision making
- Seeing the power of compounding in action.
- Your daily behaviour is a reflection of your deepest beliefs.
- Your social orbit (the people you hang out with, and their mindset about life and health) affects your behaviour and your beliefs.
- People who feel old will make you feel old.
- Hang out with young people, people who think, behave and eat differently.
- Even if you cannot hang out with 20-year-olds with fire in their belly, find people who have a growth mindset and are living life as an original.