Cyrus Gakuo

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To invent the future, you must understand the past.
To Invent the Future, You Must Understand the Past | by Leslie Berlin | Backchannel | Medium
when they hear a fact, they’ll look it up to assure themselves that it’s true, because often people cite things that are false or partial.
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(This is why writing is important. It’s harder to fool yourself that you understand something when you sit down to write about it and it comes out all disjointed and confused. Writing forces clarity.)
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It’s also so easy to think that you understand something, when you actually don’t. So even figuring out whether you understand something or not requires you to attack the thing from multiple angles and test your own understanding.
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What this means is that you can internalize good intellectual habits that, in effect, “increase your intelligence”. ‘Intelligence’ is not fixed
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Intelligent people simply aren’t willing to accept answers that they don’t understand — no matter how many other people try to convince them of it, or how many other people believe it, if they aren’t able to convince them selves of it, they won’t accept it.
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The smartest person I’ve ever known had a habit that, as a teenager, I found striking. After he’d prove a theorem, or solve a problem, he’d go back and continue thinking about the problem and try to figure out different proofs of the same thing. Sometimes he’d spend hours on a problem he’d already solved.
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I concluded that what we call 'intelligence' is as much about virtues such as honesty, integrity, and bravery, as it is about 'raw intellect’.
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Thus, in dealing with the mind, all four faculties must be unified through the four-fold yoga,
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The secret of work is intense activity, but in the midst of it, eternal calmness. ... Inactivity, as we understand it in the sense of passivity, certainly cannot be the goal. Were it so, then the walls around us would be the most intelligent; they are inactive. Clods of earth, stumps of trees, would be the greatest sages in the word; they are inactive. Nor does inactivity become activity when it is combined with passion. Real activity, which is the goal of Vedanta, is combined with eternal calmness, the calmness which cannot be ruffled, the balance of mind which is never disturbed, whatever ha…
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To action alone hast thou a right and never at all to its fruits; let not the fruits of action be thy motive; neither let there be in thee any attachment to inaction.”
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“to work, we have the right, but not to the fruits of work. Let not the fruits be your motive.”
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For example, at first, we may not be interested in mathematics, let’s say. But as one pays attention, and tries to get interested in it, love emerges and this love generates will power. This brings us to the faculty of willing.
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began this discourse by saying that we need not know how a car was manufactured or how it works in order to drive the car. With respect to the mind, we are somewhat in the same position. We may not know exactly how the mind works, which neural networks and neuro-transmitters are firing at any given moment, or whether the brain has produced the mind or the mind produced the brain. But we do need to know how to steer this mind through the highways of life and how to reach our destination
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With respect to the mind, we are somewhat in the same position. We may not know exactly how the mind works, which neural networks and neuro-transmitters are firing at any given moment, or whether the brain has produced the mind or the mind produced the brain. But we do need to know how to steer this mind through the highways of life and how to reach our destination
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thinking is only one of its faculties. There are others, such as feeling, willing and restrain- ing
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I believe that no matter what amount of work one has, one should always find some time for exercise, just as one does for one’s meals. It is my humble opinion that, far from taking away from one’s capacity for work, it adds to it
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When we give attention to anything, that very thing becomes magnified. Thus, the way to diminish the effect of mental obstacles is to keep focussed on the goal through devotion.
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hen we give attention to anything, that very thing becomes magnified. Thus, the way to diminish the effect of mental obstacles is to keep focussed on the goal through devotio
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Here then, we find the value of study. But this study must inspire and we often find in life that it is life that inspires life. Thus, a study of great lives energizes the mind and gathers it for the purpose of concentration. The great Isaac Newton used to say, “If I have been able to see this far, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.
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Sow a thought, you reap an act. Sow an act, you reap a habit. Sow a habit, you reap a character. Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.” This summarises it all. So everything begins with thought and that thought gains power through repetition
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The brain is like the computer, the mind is the programmer and thought is the programming instruction
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ed him to conclude that reasoning, the faculty of comparison, is not a neurological activity. Neither were feelings. Feelings could be revived from memory, but no new feelings could be initiated by applying electrodes to the brain
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The brain is the physical organ with which the mind is somehow intertwined
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“sugar is sweet and white.” The tongue knows only sweetness, not whiteness, and transmits this knowledge as a nerve impulse to the brain. The eye knows only whiteness, not sweetness, and transmits this aspect to the brain
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“The mind is like a laundered cloth. It takes the color of the dye you dip it in.”
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has the brain produced the mind, or has the mind produced the brain?
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For example, most mobile games allow users to play right away (before signing up or paying), providing significant delight before requesting user investment:
True Product Market Fit is a Minimum Viable Company | by Ann Miura-Ko | The Startup | Medium
Before attempting to scale your minimum viable product, you should focus on cultivating your minimum viable company. Nail down your value proposition, find your place in the broader ecosystem, and craft a business model that adds up. Nail it and then scale it. In other words, true product-market fit is actually the magical moment where three elements click together: Value propositions Ecosystem Business model
True Product Market Fit is a Minimum Viable Company | by Ann Miura-Ko | The Startup | Medium
These value propositions must be extraordinarily compelling. To succeed, a startup must be at least a 10x improvement for their customer on some dimension. Without a 10x advantage, there may be a slow increase in customer satisfaction, but there’s no spike of delight. A company without a spike of delight doesn’t stand a chance in enticing customers.
True Product Market Fit is a Minimum Viable Company | by Ann Miura-Ko | The Startup | Medium