In general on life

These are the collection of quotes/articles/books/videos that have changed/reinforced my views about certain things in life in the most powerful way possible. I consider them a collection of most important essays in my life:

• On connecting dots: Stanford Commencement Address
• On hard work: Our Souls Need Proof of Work
• On luck: Is Success Luck or Hard Work?
• On happiness: 7 Ways to Maximize Misery
• On skills: Advice on upskilling
• On persistence: 2024 Commencement Address by Roger Federer at Dartmouth
• On passion What “Follow Your Dreams” Misses
• On giving it your all RaFa
• On learning: Shortifcation of learning and How to Learn Better in the Digital Age
• On competing: Dont compete by Paras Chopra
• Book: Thinking Fast and Slow
• Book: Four thousand weeks
• Book: Antifragile
• Book: The almanack of Naval Ravikant
• Book: The courage to be disliked

• Creativity: Here’s my guess as to why: Once you’ve generated enough bad output, your mind starts to reflexively identify which elements caused the badness. Then it begins to avoid them. You start pattern-matching novel ideas with greater intuition.

• As long as you are showing up everyday and just working on the highest priority items for you, you’ll be good. Don’t be overwhelmed by the plethora of the tasks available to you. Just show up, prioritize and do the top things

• Big ambitions, low expectations, and high standards are a powerful combination for living your best life.