Came across this from the ever amazing blog of swissmiss . Benedict Cumberbatch is hard to dislike.

A line from Morgan Housel’s Psychology of Money: If you risk something that is important to you for something that is unimportant to you, it just does not make any sense Morgan talks about this in the context of an investment company who’s brokers were millionaires, made from their earlier decisions and yet put everything on line (to become billionaires) and went broke because of one bad decision. So much of the book to me not only talks about the way humans handle money but

One of my favorite Bruno Mars songs: A line from Cal Newport’s Deep Work: ”These efforts, (cartoonist Tim Kreider) is convinced, need support of a mind regularly released to leisure” ..a mind regularly released to leisure. I’ve often found myself at the thin end of not taking breaks thinking I can somehow fix the solutions of my designs by working more on them. But as Cal beautifully puts it in his book “some decisions are better left to your unconscious mind to untangle. In

In ’The Art of Noticing’ Rob walker quotes Todd B. Kashdan, a professor of psychology at George Mason University. ”(Kashdan refers to) curiosity as ‘joyous exploration’ - defined as ‘the recognition and desire to seek out new knowledge and information, and the subsequent joy of learning and growing” I feel given the rigours of professional life, the only way to be constantly and fruitfully engaged is to choose the stream one is curious about. Curiosity is the playful tenderne

Just started reading ‘Deep Work‘ by Cal Newport yesterday and right away found it deeply interesting. A new thing I learnt was about Myelin. ”myelin (is) a layer of fatty tissue that grows around neurons, acting like an insulator that allows the cells to fire faster and cleaner.” The brain puts in effort to create this fatty tissue around the Neurons for optimum efficiency towards the task at hand. Connecting to other neurons more efficiently and strongly, creating neural hig