A THREAD on interesting ideas from the book "Ultralearning" by Scott Young:
1/
The best ultralearners are those who blend the practical reasons for learning a skill with an inspiration that comes from something that excites them.
2/
By taking notes as questions instead of answers, you generate the material to practice retrieval on later.
3/
Beyond principles and tactics is a broader ultralearning ethos.
Itβs one of taking responsibility for your own learning: deciding what you want to learn, how you want to learn it, and crafting your own plan to learn what you need to...
A THREAD on key ideas from the book "Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think" by Hans Rosling:
1/
The overdramatic worldview in peopleβs heads creates a constant sense of crisis and stress.
2/
Thereβs no room for facts when our minds are occupied by fear.
3/
Hereβs the paradox: the image of a dangerous world has never been broadcast more effectively than it is now, while the world has never been less violent and more safe.
A THREAD on collection of insightful actionable thoughts on Meditation:
1/
If you have time to breathe, you have time to meditate. You breathe when you walk. You breathe when you stand. You breathe when you lie down.
- Ajahn Amaro
2/
The ancient art of meditation has been practiced by many cultures for centuries. It is a life changing practice that can help alleviate stress, anxiety, depression and bring inner peace.
- Tamia Jaelynn
3/
The more regularly and more deeply you meditate, the sooner you will find yourself acting always from a centre of inner peace.
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
2/
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
3/
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
A THREAD on insightful timeless ideas by Ludwig von Mises:
1/
Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
2/
Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments.
3/
Under capitalism, the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people.
But, of course, these motorcars, television sets and refrigerators do not make a man happy...
A THREAD on timeless ideas by Ralph Waldo Emerson:
1/
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.
2/
Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously.
And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
3/
Few people know how to take a walk.
The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
A THREAD on interesting ideas by Francis Fukuyama:
1/
It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the master.
2/
Free markets are necessary to promote long-term growth, but they are not self-regulating, particularly when it comes to banks and other large financial institutions.
3/
Human beings are rule-following animals by nature; they are born to conform to the social norms they see around them, and they entrench those rules with often transcendent meaning and value.
A THREAD on thought provoking ideas by Bertrand Russell:
1/
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
2/
The secret of happiness is this: let your interest be as wide as possible and let your reactions to the things and persons who interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.