We live in an information and knowledge based economy and our ability to constantly learn is by far one of the most critical factors for success in this ‘Knowledge Economy’. In an earlier blog post, we already saw how higher education results in higher income. However education / degree is a point-in-time accomplishment mostly obtained…
“Charles Darwin wasn’t very smart by the ordinary standards of human acuity, yet there he is buried in Westminster Abbey“. When I heard this on a talk given by Berkshire Hathaway’s, Vice Chairman Charlie Munger at the Harvard Law School, my interest to know more about the life and works of Charles Darwin grew intensely.…
“The U.S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself” – Benjamin Franklin We all know the below famous line from the US Declaration of Independence – “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with…
From the heart of all matter Comes the anguished cry Wake, wake, great Siva, Our body grows weary Of its law-fixed path, Give us new form Sing our destruction, That we gain new life… — Rabindranath Tagore Maha Shivaratri or the great night of Shiva is a festival dedicated to Lord Shiva, a Hindu deity.…
We don’t learn that we don’t learn from past mistakes until it hits us hard again and again. Somehow in evolution, I see the coding for systematic and automatic learning exists only at a subconscious / cellular level. Our bodies have memory cells that store vital information relating to viral infections, diseases, etc. and the…
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