Writing Experiment Lab | Poe's Law Playground
The Hacker’s Diet starts with this passage:
There’s an old Wall Street Tale: a tyro asks an old-timer, “How do you make money in the market?”
The wise man answers, “Nothing could be simpler: buy low, sell high“. The beginner asks, “How can I learn to do that?”. The sage responds, “Ahhh… that takes a lifetime.”
Simple doesn’t mean easy.
Probably this is how Democracies work too.
Back in June 2019, I had got an opportunity to hear from one of the best speakers (from the Toastmasters’ community) in Bangalore, Gauri Seshadri. She delivered this speech which I found inspirational and fascinating. I am not exactly paraphrasing but recalling from memory. She came from a family of Indian Army folks which made the story much more credible (I am not an expert on ranks so excuse in advance).
Here it goes,
Continue reading “Singh vs Murthy”I am a big fan of Casey Neistat (YouTube in case you don’t know him). He said, in an interview:
“You realize that you will never be the best-looking person in the room. You’ll never be the smartest person in the room. You’ll never be the most educated, the most well-versed. You can never compete on those levels. But what you can always compete on, the true egalitarian aspect to success is hard work. You can always work harder than the next guy.”
Some people may appear that they were born with a specific talent. Or they might happen to be born with certain privileges. It is not their fault. But, in case you have nothing of that sort, you can still have the full ability to try harder. And harder. And harder.
Seth Godin, in his blog https://seths.blog/2018/11/one-by-one-the-urgent-goes-away/ wrote such subtle but powerful words.
Those emergencies from a year ago (and a month ago), they’re gone.
Either they were solved, or they became things to live with. But emergencies don’t last. They fade.
Time is such a strong healer.
