Month: November 2020

Memories & Fictions

Looking outwards at the sky – we essentially stare at things as they were in the past. Sun’s light takes almost 8.5 minutes to travel to Earth, so we see the Sun as it appeared 8.5 minutes ago. The nearest star to us, Proxima Centauri, is 4.2 light-years away, so it appears to our eyes as it was 4.2 years ago. The nearest galaxy is 2.5 million light-years away and looks the way it did when our hominid ancestors walked the planet. Something similar happens when we look inwards.  We remember things not as they were but as we want

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Who Is The Richest

What is affluence? Income (divided by) / Needs+Wants Who is rich? One whose income exceeds her needs+wants Who is richer? One who is able to improve the ratio between income and wants Who is the richest? Mathematically, someone who can reduce his needs +want to zero, irrespective of income.

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Sign Vs. Symbol

Sign Vs. Symbol Stop, Start, Move – are traffic signs. So are the ones that go up on doors, construction sights, the road bends… Danger, No-Smoking, Do Not Enter, Slow, Bend Ahead… The Cross, on the other hand, is a symbol. So is the lotus, crescent moon, swastika, Nike swoosh, Vulcan salute. Both are simple images, and yet they are dramatically different. The goal of a sign is literal – to communicate an instruction, unambiguously. The Symbol, on the other hand, is a communicator of ‘meaning’. Meaning – that is deep, cryptic, symbolic and also difficult to interpret. We should

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Opposite Of Ignorance 

Opposite Of Ignorance  You may say – knowledge. One kind of knowledge is literal knowledge – of the workings and the laws. The other kind goes deeper. We may call that wisdom – that which builds a perspective. One tells us how to keep the car running well, how to improve its performance and how to improve its speed. The other tells us what direction to drive.  We need both. To drive business. Also to drive our lives. https://dash.coach

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