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Zipf's Law/Simple file management system/Effectively use credit card

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Dear all

Zipf's Law is an empirical law that states that the frequency of any word is inversely proportional to its rank in the frequency table. In other words, the most common word will occur about twice as often as the second most common word, three times as often as the third most common word, and so on. This law has been found to hold true for many different languages, as well as for other types of data, such as the distribution of cities by population.

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Here is an example of Zipf's Law in action:

The most common word in the English language is "the". It appears about 7% of the time in a typical text. The second most common word is "of", which appears about 3.5% of the time. The third most common word is "and", which appears about 2.8% of the time. And so on.

Zipf's Law is a powerful tool that can be used to understand the distribution of data. It has been used in a wide variety of fields, including linguistics, economics, and computer science.

**One Video I Enjoyed**

Simple file management system by Jeff Su.

Link: → https://youtu.be/MM-MPS57qKA

**Two Tweets I Enjoyed and Liked**

How to use credit card effectively and what are its advantages.

https://twitter.com/Ravisutanjani/status/1661405710557773824

Harsh Truths you can't ignore by Sahil Bloom.

https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1659911434229219328

**Three New Websites I Enjoyed and Liked**

Click the link and make sure your sound is on –

https://soundslikethese.com/

Bubble bubble....

https://demo.thi.ng/umbrella/bubblemania/

Koi Aquarium

https://koipond.fish/

**Three Quotes and Phrases I Liked**

"To go from good to great requires transcending the curse of competence. It requires the discipline to say, "Just because we are good at it—just because we're making money and generating growth—doesn't necessarily mean we can become the best at it." The good-to-great companies understood that doing what you are good at will only make you good; focusing solely on what you can potentially do better than any other organization is the only path to greatness."

"You can do anything, but no everything" — David Allen

A weird thing in life is that everyone strives for a good life because they think it will make them happy. But what actually brings happiness is the contrast between what you have now and whatever you were just doing.

**Two Write Ups I Enjoyed and Liked**

How tiny, cheap smart speakers unlocked the rise of digital payments in India

https://restofworld.org/2023/india-sound-boxes-paytm-phonepe/

The Last Question- By Isaac Asimov

https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thelastq.html

**One Photo I Enjoyed and Liked**

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The porcupine dilemma/Guide to be miserable/30 Short Habits/

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Dear all

Today's word is "porcupine dilemma".

The porcupine dilemma is a metaphorical situation that shows the difficulty in balancing the need for closeness and the fear of getting hurt. Imagine a group of porcupines huddling together for warmth on a cold day. As they get closer, their sharp quills start pricking each other, causing pain.

The porcupine dilemma

Similarly, in human relationships, we desire emotional closeness, but we also fear rejection and emotional harm. This dilemma often leads to a delicate dance of maintaining a safe distance to avoid hurt, while still seeking the warmth of connection. It's a challenge many of us face in our relationships.

**One Video I Enjoyed**

The Guide to Being Miserable

**Two Tweets I Enjoyed and Liked**

  1. George Mack collected ads worth sharing.

  2. 30 short habits with massive returns

**Three New Websites I Enjoyed and Liked**

The content you see repeats every 24 hours. Forever.

https://24hourhomepage.com/

Companion is a offline digital library of 1,000+ survival guides and resources that empowers you to sustain yourself in a SHTF scenario

https://www.getcompanion.co/

Scroll and explore something really, really deep/tall/long' thing – as you scroll, the page takes you up through the various atmospheric stages between the floor and space.

https://neal.fun/space-elevator/

**Three Quotes and Phrases I Liked**

The bad days are down payment for the good days.

Everything in good time, feel the pain of waiting.

On the other side of your goals, are more goals.

**Two Write Ups I Enjoyed and Liked**

Why aren't they protected from parents who monetise their lives online?

https://aeon.co/essays/why-arent-children-protected-from-their-parents-monetising-them

20 Animated Infographics To Inspire You in 2023

https://www.siegemedia.com/creation/animated-infographics

**One Photo I Enjoyed and Liked**

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McNamara Fallacy/Use Google Keep Notes Effectively/How Colourblind See

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Today we will understand McNamara Fallacy.

The McNamara Fallacy is a kind of logical error that happens when someone makes a decision based only on numbers and ignores other factors that are not easy to measure or prove.

It is named after Robert McNamara, who was the US Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War.

He used to track the progress of the war by counting how many enemies were killed compared to how many Americans were killed.

He thought that this was the best way to win the war, but he was wrong. He did not pay attention to other things that mattered, like the feelings and opinions of the people in Vietnam and America.

In simple language, the McNamara Fallacy means that if you only care about numbers and not about other things that are hard to measure, you might make bad decisions and lose.

One Video I Enjoyed

One of the best guide to use Google's Keep Notes.

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Two Tweets I Enjoyed and Liked

Friendship and social connection are essential for health.

https://twitter.com/SahilBloom/status/1656640297332252673

The liver doc shared a beautiful story

https://twitter.com/theliverdr/status/1652986904751804421

Three New Websites I Enjoyed and Liked

Qi serves as a sanctuary for the unconventional, pushing the limits of art, meditation, and technology in a unique fusion.

https://qi.amalgamated.tech/about

Word solitaire.

https://kloonigames.com/wordsolitaire/

Transform long form content into clear summaries. Save time with this nice online tool.

https://www.brevity.sh/

Three Quotes and Phrases I Liked

"Never finish a negative statement. Reverse it immediately and wonders will happen in your life."

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." By Joshua J. Marine

Instead of complaining about the rules, just learn the game, then play it.

Two Write Ups I Enjoyed and Liked

North Korea explained.

https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/09/20-things-i-learned-while-i-was-in.html

How a colour blind see colours

https://www.theverge.com/23650428/colorblindness-design-ui-accessibility-wordle

One Photo I Enjoyed and Liked

As we celebrated the Rabindra Jayanti…

A post shared by Subrata Ghosh (@draw_with_subrata)

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Fosbury Flop / Stories of Jim Corbett / Easy Mental Maths/Tiny Sci-fi Stories

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"๐™๐™๐™ž๐™จ ๐™ž๐™จ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™ฌ๐™–๐™ฎ ๐™ฌ๐™š ๐™๐™–๐™ซ๐™š ๐™–๐™ก๐™ฌ๐™–๐™ฎ๐™จ ๐™™๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™š ๐™ž๐™ฉ."

I know, this is the answer you get when you ask ๐ฐ๐ก๐ฒ something is done a certain way?

Specially when you work in a legacy driven company.

๐”ป๐•š๐•”๐•œ ๐”ฝ๐• ๐•ค๐•“๐•ฆ๐•ฃ๐•ช, an athlete, heard this too when he started competing in the ๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ต ๐—ท๐˜‚๐—บ๐—ฝ. ๐Ÿฆ˜

๐˜๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ๐Ÿง ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ฆ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜ซ๐˜ถ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฉ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ช๐˜ณ ๐˜ง๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฅ๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ข๐˜ณ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ธ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ช๐˜ง ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜ด ๐˜ข ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ ๐˜ธ๐˜ข๐˜บ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ซ๐˜ถ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ.

He eventually came up with a ๐–“๐–Š๐–œ ๐–™๐–Š๐–ˆ๐–๐–“๐–Ž๐––๐–š๐–Š where he jumped his b̾a̾c̾k̾ ̾t̾o̾w̾a̾r̾d̾s̾ ̾t̾h̾e̾ ̾b̾a̾r̾ and was able to jump much higher than before.

And in the 1968 Olympics, he shocked the world with his new style, winning the ๐—š๐—ผ๐—น๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐— ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐Ÿฅ‡ with an ๐™Š๐™ก๐™ฎ๐™ข๐™ฅ๐™ž๐™˜ ๐™ง๐™š๐™˜๐™ค๐™ง๐™™.

The technique was named

๏ผฆ๏ฝ๏ฝ“๏ฝ‚๏ฝ•๏ฝ’๏ฝ™ ๏ผฆ๏ฝŒ๏ฝ๏ฝ

and all the athletes started using it.

๐๐ฒ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐จ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฆ๐ž๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š ๐›๐ž๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ, ๐ƒ๐ข๐œ๐ค ๐…๐จ๐ฌ๐›๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ญ๐จ๐ฉ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฏ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ข๐ณ๐ž๐ ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ.

You will find ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐œ๐ก ๐ž๐ฑ๐š๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ of

★ๅฝก[๊œฐแด๊œฑส™แดœส€ส ๊œฐสŸแดแด˜]ๅฝก★

in life.

iPhone ๐Ÿ“ฑ was the Fosbury Flop for Steve Jobs as he was looking for a better smartphone.

SpaceX was the Fosbury Flop for Elon Musk who was in search for a better way to send rockets ๐Ÿš€ in space.

♥ Did we find ours? ♥

Are we able change the "๐™™๐™š๐™›๐™–๐™ช๐™ก๐™ฉ" settings in our life, workplace or business.

Just think ๐Ÿค”

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**One Video I Enjoyed**

This video shows chimpanzee's are quite smart and have wonderful memory.

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**Two Tweets I Enjoyed and Liked**

Stories of Jim Corbett through a thread.

Get the MOST out of the BOOKS from Paras Chopra.

**Three New Websites I Enjoyed and Liked**

Funny indeed

https://bohemianrhapsod.ai/

Login to visit the Guided Tour of the full interior Great Pyramid on the Giza Plateau.

https://giza.mused.org/en/guided/266/inside-the-great-pyramid

Get a view of surface of moon through this website.

https://murray-lab.caltech.edu/CTX/V01/SceneView/MurrayLabCTXmosaic.html

**Three Quotes and Phrases I Liked**

You know you're living in an age of excess when it costs more to get rid of stuff than to buy it.

Feeling stupid now is better than feeling stupid in 10 years.

If someone is successful but there are no specific problems they solved, it's probably because they're good at persuading people rather than solving problems.

**Two Write Ups I Enjoyed and Liked**

Useful Life Hacks

https://guzey.com/lifehacks/

Mental maths made easy.

https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/everyday-math-shortcuts-to-memorize-254594

**One Photo I Enjoyed and Liked**

Source: Tiny Sci-fi Stories

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Framing Effect/Fighting Cancer/Productivity Tips

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Dear all,

A social experiment was conducted in which world-class violinist ๐‰๐จ๐ฌ๐ก๐ฎ๐š ๐๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ, who played an impromptu concert in a ๐™จ๐™ช๐™—๐™ฌ๐™–๐™ฎ ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™–๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ in ๐–๐š๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐จ๐ง, ๐ƒ.๐‚.

Bell typically sells out venues like the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall for high prices๐Ÿ’ฒ, but in the subway station, his music went unnoticed.

The mind takes shortcuts informed by our surroundings to make quick and sometimes erroneous judgments.

๐šƒ๐š‘๐šŽ ๐šŽ๐šก๐š™๐šŽ๐š›๐š’๐š–๐šŽ๐š—๐š ๐šœ๐š‘๐š˜๐š ๐šŽ๐š ๐š๐š‘๐šŠ๐š ๐š๐š‘๐šŽ ๐šŒ๐š˜๐š—๐š๐šŽ๐šก๐š ๐š˜๐š› ๐š๐š›๐šŠ๐š–๐š’๐š—๐š ๐š˜๐š ๐šŠ๐š— ๐šŽ๐šก๐š™๐šŽ๐š›๐š’๐šŽ๐š—๐šŒ๐šŽ ๐šŒ๐šŠ๐š— ๐šŠ๐š๐š๐šŽ๐šŒ๐š ๐š˜๐šž๐š› ๐š‹๐šŽ๐š‘๐šŠ๐šŸ๐š’๐š˜๐š› ๐šŠ๐š—๐š ๐šŽ๐šŸ๐šŽ๐š— ๐šŒ๐š‘๐šŠ๐š—๐š๐šŽ ๐š‘๐š˜๐š  ๐š˜๐šž๐š› ๐š‹๐š›๐šŠ๐š’๐š— ๐š™๐šŽ๐š›๐šŒ๐šŽ๐š’๐šŸ๐šŽ๐šœ ๐š™๐š•๐šŽ๐šŠ๐šœ๐šž๐š›๐šŽ.

In another study from 2007, researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure if the price of ๐˜„๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ influenced the taste.

AI generated

Participants sampled wines of different prices started with a $ 5 wine and progressed to a $ 90 bottle while in the fMRI machine.

As the price of the wine increased ๐Ÿ“ˆ, so did their enjoyment and brain activity associated with pleasure.

Little did the study participants realize that ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š๐™ฎ ๐™ฌ๐™š๐™ง๐™š ๐™ฉ๐™–๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™จ๐™–๐™ข๐™š ๐™ฌ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™š ๐Ÿท ๐™š๐™–๐™˜๐™ ๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ข๐™š.

Not only did they say they enjoyed the wine more but their brain corroborated their feelings, showing higher spikes in the regions associated with pleasure.

๐“๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ž๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐œ๐ž๐ฉ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐œ๐š๐ง ๐œ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐š ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐›๐š๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐จ๐ง ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐š ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐š๐ฆ๐ž๐, ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ง ๐ฐ๐ก๐ž๐ง ๐จ๐›๐ฃ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐ช๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฆ๐š๐ข๐ง๐ฌ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐ญ.

๐•‹๐•™๐•–๐•ค๐•– ๐•–๐•ฉ๐•’๐•ž๐•ก๐•๐•–๐•ค ๐•ค๐•™๐• ๐•จ ๐•ฅ๐•™๐•’๐•ฅ ๐• ๐•ฆ๐•ฃ ๐•ก๐•–๐•ฃ๐•”๐•–๐•ก๐•ฅ๐•š๐• ๐•Ÿ๐•ค ๐•’๐•Ÿ๐•• ๐•–๐•ฉ๐•ก๐•–๐•ฃ๐•š๐•–๐•Ÿ๐•”๐•–๐•ค ๐•’๐•ฃ๐•– ๐•Ÿ๐• ๐•ฅ ๐•’๐•๐•จ๐•’๐•ช๐•ค ๐• ๐•“๐•›๐•–๐•”๐•ฅ๐•š๐•ง๐•–, ๐•“๐•ฆ๐•ฅ ๐•”๐•’๐•Ÿ ๐•“๐•– ๐•ค๐•™๐•’๐•ก๐•–๐•• ๐•“๐•ช ๐•–๐•ฉ๐•ฅ๐•–๐•ฃ๐•Ÿ๐•’๐• ๐•—๐•’๐•”๐•ฅ๐• ๐•ฃ๐•ค ๐•’๐•Ÿ๐•• ๐•“๐•š๐•’๐•ค๐•–๐•ค.

๐•ฝ๐–Š๐–‹๐–Š๐–—๐–Š๐–“๐–ˆ๐–Š๐–˜:

"๐˜—๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ญ๐˜ด ๐˜‰๐˜ฆ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜‰๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฌ๐˜ง๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ต: ๐˜Š๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ'๐˜ด ๐˜จ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ฎ๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ด ๐˜ค๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜จ๐˜ฉ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜จ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ข ๐˜‹.๐˜Š. ๐˜ณ๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ฉ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ?๐˜“๐˜ฆ๐˜ต'๐˜ด ๐˜ง๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ต."

"๐˜”๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ฆ๐˜น๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ด."

**One Video I Enjoyed**

Some entertainment this time. Kieran Brown tried some of the rarest football tricks.

https://youtu.be/dTwRo_ucAZ4

**Two Tweets I Enjoyed and Liked**

Tried to avoid and fight cancer in this tweet

https://twitter.com/LandonClost/status/1567136787482673152

Alex Mathers little secrets to boost productivity

https://twitter.com/Alexmathers84/status/1519285547684048896

**Three New Websites I Enjoyed and Liked**

Zoom zoom and only zoom in..

https://zoomquilt.org/

Letters from Steve Jobs.

https://book.stevejobsarchive.com/

Can only be read when it's day time.

https://mifsud.org/sun

**Three Quotes and Phrases I Liked**

Everything in life worth achieving requires practice. In fact, life itself is nothing more than one long practice session, an endless effort of refining our motions. When the proper mechanics of practicing are understood, the task of learning something new becomes a stress-free experience of joy and calmness, a process which settles all areas in your life and promotes proper perspective on all of life's difficulties. —Thomas Sterner

We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem; we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs subordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling. —Eric Hoffer

I am rather like a mosquito in a nudist camp; I know what I want to do, but I don't know where to begin. —Stephen Bayne

**Two Write Ups I Enjoyed and Liked**

'Doggerland'—the winner of the VS Pritchett Short Story Prize 2022

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/arts-and-books/vs-pritchett-short-story-prize-2022

43 Bullet Points on Personal Productivity

https://productivityist.com/productivitybulletpoints/

**One Photo I Enjoyed and Liked**

Digital ID: 1161045. [Head of the Statue of Liberty on display in a park in Paris.]. Fernique, Albert -- Photographer. 1883

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Dear all

Todays new term for me atleast is Pygmalion effect.

The Pygmalion effect is a phenomenon where high expectations can lead to better performance, while low expectations can lead to poorer performance.

It's like a self-fulfilling prophecy, where what we believe about ourselves can affect our behavior and outcomes.

Here are two examples that can help in explaining it.

Imagine you have a teacher who believes you are really good at math. They give you extra challenging math problems to solve and praise you when you get the right answers. Because your teacher expects you to do well, you start to believe in yourself and put in extra effort to live up to their expectations. You start getting better and better at math because your teacher has high expectations for you.

On the other hand, let's say you have a coach who thinks you are not very athletic. They don't give you much playing time during games and rarely offer you any feedback. Because your coach doesn't expect much from you, you start to believe that you aren't good at sports. You may not put in as much effort during practice or games, which could cause you to perform poorly. The low expectations of your coach have led to a negative outcome for you.

In both of these examples, what other people expect of you can affect how you see yourself and how well you perform. So, it's important to have high expectations for yourself and to surround yourself with people who believe in you and encourage you to do your best.

One Video I Enjoyed

Michael Stevens from Vsauce tried to explain when we will run out of names.

Two Tweets I Enjoyed and Liked

https://twitter.com/michelleegordon/status/1644800841294000130

https://twitter.com/anshgupta64/status/1647457309646528514

Three New Websites I Enjoyed and Liked

>Site which lets you click on a picture of Greta Thunberg and have a voice read out some words in her voice about what an ar$ehole you are for not doing enough to save the planet.

https://www.roastmegreta.com/

>Endangered sounds worth listening.

http://savethesounds.info/

>Clock Us | Online Clock, Stopwatch, Timer, Alarm Clock and More

https://clock-us.com/

Three Quotes and Phrases I Liked

"Let your mind become a lens, thanks to the converging rays of attention; let your soul be all intent on whatever it is that is established in your mind as a dominant, wholly absorbing idea."

Bill Ackman on success: "I've always had this view that success is not a straight line up. If you read the stories of successful people, almost every successful person has had to deal with some degree of hardship, whether that hardship is personal hardship, health-related hardship, or a business issue. I've always had the view that how successful you are is really a function of how you deal with failure. If you deal with failure well and you persist, you have a high probability of being successful."

In order for you to beat someone in a debate, your opponent needs to realize they've lost. Therefore, it's easier to win an argument against a genius than an idiot.

Two Write Ups I Enjoyed and Liked

This is a genuinely brilliant (long) read explaining exactly how a bicycle works. This is a genuinely brilliant (long) read explaining exactly how a bicycle works

https://ciechanow.ski/bicycle/

Claire O'Brien writes about death and the business of death, about her experience working with dead bodies and what you learn about yourself and other people when you're hanging out with cadevers on the reg.

https://delacortereview.org/2023/03/13/how-not-to-dig-your-own-grave/

One Photo I Enjoyed and Liked

Courtesy: StatsofIndia

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