My Public Diary (Lovely Gupta)

  Dogma I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding, they learn by some other way—by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile! —Richard Feynman Dogma is everywhere and comes in a thousand different varieties—but the format is generally the same: X is true because [authority] says so. The authority can be many things. Dogma, unlike first principles reasoning, isn’t customized to the believer or her environment and isn’t meant to be critiqued and adjusted as things change. It’s not software to be coded—it’s a printed rulebook. Its rules may be originally based on reasoning by a certain kind of thinker in a certain set of circumstances, at a time far in the past or a place far away, or it may be based on no reasoning at all. But that doesn’t matter because you’re not supposed to dig too deep under the surface anyway—you’re just supposed to accept it, embrace it, and live by it. No evidence needed. You may not like living by someone else’s dogma, b

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 The Power of Habit (Summary)  PROLOGUE: -Keystone habit. Some habits, in other words, matter more than others in remaking businesses and lives. These are "keystone habits" and they can influence how people work, eat, play, live, spend, and communicate. Keystone habits start a process that, over time, transforms everything. Keystone habits say that success doesn't depend on getting every single thing right, but instead relies on identifying a few key priorities and fashioning them into powerful levers. Studies have documented that families who habitually eat dinner together seem to raise children with better homework skill, higher grades, greater emotional control, and more confidence. Making your bed every morning is correlated with better productivity, a great sense of well-being, and stronger skills at sticking with a budget. It's not that a family meal or a tidy bed causes better grades or less frivolous spending. But somehow those in

 Most People’s Software You always hear facts about human development and how so much of who you become is determined by your experiences during your formative years. A newborn’s brain is a malleable ball of hardware clay, and its job upon being born is to quickly learn about whatever environment it’s been born into and start shaping itself into the optimal tool for survival in those circumstances. That’s why it’s so easy for young children to learn new skills. As people age, the clay begins to harden and it becomes more difficult to change the way the brain operates. My grandmother has been using a computer as long as I have, but I use mine comfortably and easily because my malleable childhood brain easily wrapped itself around basic computer skills, while she has the same face on when she uses her computer that my tortoise does when I put him on top of a glass table and he thinks he’s inexplicably hovering two feet above the ground. She’ll use a computer when she needs to, but it’s n

 Dealing with Addictions/Bad Habits "It isn't that you are trying to quit addiction/bad habit. It's not the right way to think about it. The right way to think about it is that you are trying to figure out how to have a better life and so you have to figure out , well I would say, do the future authoring program and keep your addiction/bad habit in mind and think. So in the part of the future authoring program it asks you a bunch of questions about what your life could be like in three to five years if you took care of yourself like you were someone that you cared for and then it asks you questions about your friends and your family and your career and your time outside of your work and your health and, you know, the important dimensions of life and it asks you to spend 20 minutes writting about how good your life could be in three to five years if you got your act together and did what was good for you and then it asked you to write about the hell you could be in if you d