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Demystifying Ageing Ageing is a physical manifestation of accumulated damages in the interlinked parts of a machine - car, laptop or human body!
There's one critical difference between Humab body & machines...I'll come to that a few tweets down the line.

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I'm always thinking about my

health/fitness
happiness
relationships - family, friends (countable)
money - financial freedom, investing
learning - reading, writing
travel
adventure I have forward looking images for each of my priorities - healthier, wiser, richer man; travelling across the world, having fun & adventure along with family & close friends.

The Zone of Vivacity! All the joys of life lie beyond the comfort zone - the zone of Vivacity. This is the zone where you're:
exploring the boundaries and trying to surpass them
doing something you've never done
learning something new, even at the cost of looking clumsy

My 9 year old & her freind have started writing stories & selling them in our residential society. A few years back, I started reading stories for them. Since last year, they started reading on their own, while I continue to read for them too!

The Beginning of Infinity - David Deutsch

This is one of the most profound books, I've ever read. I've never written any book summary, but I do intend to write a thread on this book. Problem is that it is not an easy read. I have been reading it for over 5 months now...and likely to tread through for a few months more.

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The sattelite images of planet Earth evoke a sense of:

1) a shared destiny above & beyond the petty differences we keep fighting for amongst neighbours, brothers, colleagues, races, religions, nations and various faiths! 2) a speck in the universal scheme of things - It takes our perception away from our self-centred vantage points.

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An average poor in India must be far healthier & fitter than an average rich. Compare an average middle aged man & woman in the two segments. The difference is palpable gait, movements, speed, fragility to dust & sun and variations in weather..you don't need any medical tests to prove this.

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Prayer & Goal Setting! Both prayer & goal setting are kind of wish list for crossing a situational trench - a trench between where you're today and where you wish to some day!

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Preventive vs Reactive Maintenance of Body Most of us our very particular about the preventive maintenance of our cars, water filters, plants, A/Cs etc. We even go for annual service contracts for some of them.
When it comes to ourselves, we leave it on reactive maintenance.

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Worry vs Preparedness

The future may unfold in myriad ways, with range spanning from very positive to total ruin. The atavistic instincts make us focus on the downsides (rightly so!) The response however is what makes a big difference between those who do well, live with freedom and take opportunities vs those who don't do well, live timidly in the name of safety and lose opportunities.

In today's hyper opined world...
Everything that is said, its opposite and everything in between, has an audience!

You just throw an opinion and it catches fancy with some! An opinion & it's counter opinion finds audience only with one's already aligned with the it. It rarely cross-connects with one's holding opposite view.

Debates, though prevalent throughout history, are mostly meaningless... Nobody listens to counter views!

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Cult Following & Polarizing

There seems to be a deep rooted need for cult following / herd mentality. People stop thinking for themselves and keep following a cult to their grave.

This cuts across religions, politics, nationalism, racism, casteism, finance & investing. People tend to cluster & polarize. Rather than seeing the commonalities (which are chunk of the proverbial iceberg), people polarize and see the differences (the tip of the iceberg)

Warren Buffett made most of his gains (in absolute terms) in the last 10% of his investment span. This compounding effect is omnipresent. I applies to all compounding domains. Exercise:
If you can do 10 reps of an exercise, the biggest gains come with the 10th rep. Doing 5 reps, instead of 10 will not give you half of the effect...it will be much much lesser.

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My Journey to #FinancialFreedom 2001
Started my career
Struggled to get my first job in the post dot com rubble..wriggled my way in somehow
Started my 1st modest SIP in Dec 2001, I think, in Alliance Mutual Fund

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The Socio-Economic K Curve

The rich & priviledged keep getting opportunities that they keep capitalising on.
The poor never get those opportunities and keep getting dragged in the day to day challenges. The socio-economic divide keeps getting wider & wider. The poor works for the rich - the driver, servants, maids, office boys. They observe the rich capitalising on such opportunities, enjoying their lives, while they struggle.

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9 Simple & Easy steps to be healthy & fit!

Let's start with the simplest things...and then move to relatively difficult ones

[I"ll use the abbreviation S&E for simple & easy] 1) Sleep well at regular times for around 8 hours, S&E?

https://twitter.com/flaneur_a/status/1281629038973353985

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Cooperation vs Competition It is very natural to believe that to be successful in life, you need to be very competitive...beat others to dust. It is also natural to draw inspiration from sports where only way to win is by beating others. Like Chess!

The Subconscious You is the real You!

You are good & improving, if the subconscious you is good & improving. That's why it should be a persistent endeavour of the Conscious You to persistently learn and pass on the wisdom to the Subconscious You. Your learning stays in the sub conscious and on most occasions, helps you with different aspects of life - relationships, success, investing etc.

The super achievers in any field talks about the behavioural/subconscious powers.

Reading Fast & Slow

rationalflaneur.com/reading-fast-s… An inefficient reader reads superficially, without making any notes, without connecting any dots (fast) & does so by reading at a painfully slow pace such that he gets lost in the details, misses the context, takes months to finish it or even leaves it incomplete (slow).

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Performance is a complex function of ability and psychology.

Ability is cumulative - it adds on prior base like your belly fat 🥳
It is like a Fixed Deposit....keeps accumulating. Psychology is cyclical. It meanders from low (lower than your ability justifies/underconfidence) to high (higher than your ability justifies/overconfidence)

Learning new skills or improving existing skill levels involves going through a stage of Liminality - you're either here nor there!
This stage is very unsettling. There are several behavioural resistances - questioning the very necessity of doing that, or question the methods. Our brain is very capable, much more than we can imagine. It's just that the sub conscious part of the brain is tuned to be metabolically efficient...and it achieves the efficiency by using shortcuts.