Books Review

How to tweek your life to use failures to succeed I am reading Scott Adam’s ‘ How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life ’. One of the most important messages in this book is ‘always use failures to reorient your life for success. Its easier said than understood. Its easy to feign understanding it and its extremely difficult to implement it in your life. I believe the author has done a great job in explaining. I would like to break it down to the following steps. When have you failed? Most important part of the whole cycle is that you fail to understand when have you failed? Life is a continuous process and it never stops. So the clear signal of failure is never there. There are symptoms and indirect evidence. However its very late to realize that the we have failed. If something is failing the first attempt is to salvage and don’t allow it to fail. People who have anticipated failure early in the work and developed parameters / benchmark...

Daily habits that can help winning the battles to ultimately win the war Photo by  Ana Juma  on  Unsplash Its been more than three decades since I gained the wisdom to take care of myself. This indeed has been a roller coaster ride and with its ups and downs. There were more ups than downs but we tend to remember the downs more than necessary. In the years I have cultivated a plan to go about my daily chores so as to ensure that my goals are met and I am happy domain. It works most of the time but sometimes I falter in these habits. The side effects show up much faster than I anticipate and I have to set the sails again. Control your mornings Photo by  Carli Jeen  on  Unsplash Self help experts have a clear cut templates for suggesting morning routines. I would tell mine and encourage you to create your own morning routine based on experiments on what works well. First and foremost ensure you have a routine. This means that y...

Scott Adams discusses building systems in detail in his book ‘How to fail at almost everything and still win big’ So what is the difference between a system and a goal. The goals are future states that we aspire mono-maniacally, while systems are our daily habits that we do to ensure that we are moving forward. As pointed out by Scott Adams, one can easily confuse or interchange these two but the  gist  is that one should build a daily routine and stick to it. While goals are important to motivate but its more important to consistently work so as to move forward. The daily routine could be built around (not limited) to the following key factors. What makes me happy? What can I do on a repeat without being frustrated? What can help me learn more skills? What can give freedom to invest more into my family relationships and possibly contribute to society? If one is able to build a system then it will be sustainable and progress is guaranteed. Also it comes with th...

I asked about recommendations of how to watch the GOT HBO series. Some one really cool advised me to read the books. I had no idea that the books existed. So in the next one hour I had purchased five books and they happily landed in my Kindle. I avoided watching any trailers, episode prequels, intros or anything remotely related to the GOT TV Series. I only knew who played the dwarf {Thanks to Facebook Memes} and that too became a permanent visualisation whenever I read the novel any thing he was doing or saying, the real person would come up in my imagination. I had read the Harry Potter Series all together in one go and then watched the movies. It was a wonderful experience (both the books and movies). Also reading God Father after watching the brilliant movie told me that there is no replacement for beautiful novel. Anyhow enough of preaching Books over Visual Media, the novel itself was very long and that turned out a bit of turn off in the beginning. I knew I would never be...

Long after Da Vinci Code reading Masonic mumbo jumbo from Dan Brown would be a totally a wastage of time. The sheer size of the book also kept me away from the book. Compared to other books this is a huge volume (133 Chapters). It took around five nights to read it speaks about its gripping story line. The beauty of Dan Brown's novels is that one is exposed to such elaborate half-fact / half-fiction that one is amazed at how he manages to maintain consistency and interest is maintained. Such is the power of Brown's narration that one is made starts to make a movie in the mind. Thanks to the movies now one can only imagine Tom Hanks for Robert Langdon ! 1. Historical Perspective The Lost Symbol's major strength is that history is discussed at a flashing speed. One moves from century to century and then back and forth in the matter of sentences. So seamless is continuity that the frequent back and forth between historical references (which Brown at times ...

Benoit Mandelbrot sits down at the TED Talk and talks about fractals for  twenty minute. The legend talks about Fractals so beautifully and simply that one is astonished by all the fractal designs. The Julia Sets in four dimensions are simply amazing.  Fractals are extremely complicated objects that are defined by extremely simple formulas.  The examples of clouds and valleys being created by inputting a number (the roughness number).