BC PRINCIPLES

Saved by @tradrdoc

Andrew Duggan
@ajdduggan 2 years, 7 months ago 425 views

Save to PDF Share See On Twitter

15 Powerful Quotes From Plato

| 🧵Thread

1. “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”

- Plato

2. "Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow."

- Plato

3. “The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

- Plato

4. "Love is a serious mental disease."

- Plato

5. "No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth."

- Plato

6. “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark;

the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”

- Plato

7. "A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something."

- Plato

8. "Human behavior flows from three main sources:

desire, emotion, and knowledge."

- Plato

9. "Reality is created by the mind,

We can change our reality by changing our mind."

- Plato

10. "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly,

While bad people will find a way around the laws."

- Plato

11. “Those who tell the stories rule society.”

- Plato

12. "The measure of a man is what he does with power."

- Plato

13. “I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”

- Plato

14. “There are three classes of men:

-> lovers of wisdom,
-> lovers of honor,
-> lovers of gain.”

- Plato

15. “The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”

- Plato

Thanks for reading. If you find this thread valuable follow me ( @ajdduggan ) for more content like this.

And retweet the first tweet to share with others:

https://t.co/MgUlEshQPg

15 Powerful Quotes From Plato

| \U0001f9f5Thread pic.twitter.com/4ZRNlLV1lw
— Andrew Duggan (@ajdduggan) January 24, 2022

More from Andrew Duggan

Andrew Duggan
@ajdduggan

15 Life Changing Insights from Swami Vivekananda

| Thread 🧵

1. We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

- Swami Vivekananda

2. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea.

Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone.

This is the way to success.

- Swami Vivekananda

3. You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

- Swami Vivekananda

4. You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

- Swami Vivekananda

Andrew Duggan
@ajdduggan

15 of the most powerful and timeless insights from @Naval Ravikant

Naval risked his reputation and fortune to bring life lessons to us all. And he's impacted the life of millions around the world.

Enjoy this thread 🙏

| Thread 🧵

1. “I, and I alone, am responsible for everything I think and feel."

@naval

2. “Pain is a fact.

Suffering is a choice."

@naval

3. “No one can compete with you on being you.

Most of life is a search for who and what needs you the most."

@naval

4. “The more seriously you take yourself, the unhappier you’re going to be."

@naval

Advertisement

Andrew Duggan
@ajdduggan

10 Powerful Lessons from Marcus Aurelius

| Thread

1. "The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have."

- Marcus Aurelius

2. "Receive without conceit, release without struggle."

- Marcus Aurelius

3. "To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony."

- Marcus Aurelius

4. "Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself. "

- Marcus Aurelius

Andrew Duggan
@ajdduggan

15 Philosophy Quotes From "Cicero"

| Thread

1. “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

2. "Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors, and thieves."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

3. "More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.

Indecision is the thief of opportunity.

It will steal you blind."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

4. "The wise are instructed by reason,
average minds by experience,
the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Andrew Duggan
@ajdduggan

10 Powerful Lessons From the Book “The Art of the Good Life”

| Book Review Thread

1. Peak-end Rule:

You remember the high point and the end point of your holiday, but the rest is forgotten.

Remind to make them as sweet as possible.

2. Plans are nothing. Planning is everything.

A good life is not a stable state or condition.

The good life is only achieved through constant readjustment.

3. Inflexibility as a Stratagem

When it comes to important issues, flexibility isn’t an advantage – it’s a trap.

Use radical inflexibility to reach long-term goals that would be unrealizable if their behavior were more flexible.

4. Reality Doesn’t Care About Your Feelings

Accepting reality is easy when you like what you see, but you’ve got to accept it even when you don’t – especially when you don’t.

More from Principles

Sahil Bloom
@SahilBloom

Frameworks provide clarity in complex situations.

Here are 20 useful frameworks (on startups, investing, writing, & life):

The Feynman Technique

To learn anything:

Step 1: Identify a topic.
Step 2: Try to explain it to a 5-year-old.
Step 3: Study to fill in knowledge gaps.
Step 4: Organize, convey, and review.

True genius is the ability to simplify, not complicate.

Simple is beautiful.

Directional Arrow of Progress

"Study the undeniable arrows of progress." - @wolfejosh

The future is extremely difficult to predict—but there are clues.

Look at the trend line of progress and where it's pointing—directionally, not precisely.

Invest (or build) accordingly.

The Eisenhower Decision Matrix

Place all of your tasks on a 2x2 matrix of urgency and importance.

(1) Important & Urgent
(2) Important & Not Urgent
(3) Not Important & Urgent
(4) Not Important & Not Urgent

Prioritize, delegate, or delete accordingly.

The Regret Minimization Framework

The goal is to minimize the number of regrets in life.

When faced with a difficult decision:
(1) Project yourself into the future.
(2) Look back on the decision.
(3) Ask "Will I regret not doing this?"
(4) Take action.

Philosophy Thoughts
@Philosophy_DQ

15 Deep Psychology And Philosophy Quotes From "Carl Jung"

| Thread

1. "The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you."

- Carl Jung

2. "You are what you do, not what you say you'll do."

- Carl Jung

3. "Everything that irritates us about others can lead to an understanding of ourselves."

- Carl Jung

4. "If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely."

- Carl Jung

Advertisement

Deep Thoughts
@Deep_thoughtsHQ

20 Powerful Philosophy Quotes of "Lao Tzu"

Thread

1. "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."

- Lao Tzu

2. "The best fighter is never angry."

- Lao Tzu

3. "If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong.

When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of you being a wise man."

- Lao Tzu

4. "Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are greatest treasures. Simple in thoughts, u return to source of being.

Patient with both friends & enemies, u accord with the way things are.

Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in world."

- Lao Tzu

Andrew Duggan
@ajdduggan

15 Philosophy Quotes From "Cicero"

| Thread

1. “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

2. "Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors, and thieves."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

3. "More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.

Indecision is the thief of opportunity.

It will steal you blind."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

4. "The wise are instructed by reason,
average minds by experience,
the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Sahil Bloom
@SahilBloom

20 ideas I can’t stop thinking about:

The Feynman Technique

To learn anything:

Step 1: Identify a topic
Step 2: Try to explain it to a 5-year-old
Step 3: Study to fill in knowledge gaps
Step 4: Organize, convey, and review

True genius is the ability to simplify, not complicate.

Simple is beautiful.

Intellectual Sparring Partners

Most of us need fewer friends and more intellectual sparring partners.

Friends are easy to come by.

Intellectual sparring partners are harder to find.

They will call you on your BS, question your assumptions, and push you to think deeply.

Boredom Alpha

Experiencing regular periods of boredom is a competitive advantage.

Your most creative moments come during bouts of boredom.

In the shower, on a walk, at a dinner by yourself.

You’re bored, your mind wanders, and creative insight strikes.

Boredom creates alpha.

Paths Open vs. Closed

Black Lines = paths closed
Green Lines = paths open

We spend too much time focusing on what might have been (black) and not enough time focusing on what may be (green).

Never underestimate the density of opportunity that lies ahead.

(h/t @waitbutwhy)

You May Also Like

Suhas S. Hardutt
@HarduttSuhas

Marvels of Medical Science in Ancient India

ACHARYA SUSHRUTA and SUSHRUTA SAMHITA

Ancient Indians were pioneers in diverse fields of study and their genius was centuries ahead of their times. Feel the glory, basking in pride of their unparalleled achievements.

(Thread)

Sushruta (circa 7th or 6th century BC) was a surgeon who in present times is known as the “father of Indian medicine” and “father of plastic surgery” for inventing and developing surgical procedures. He lived in Kashi on the banks of river Ganga.(1)

His work documented in the Sushruta Samhita (compendium) is one of the oldest texts in the world on plastic surgery and regarded as one of the trilogies of Ayurveda. The other 2 being the Charaka Samhita and Astanga Hridaya.(2)

Sushruta compiled the Sushruta Samhita as an instruction manual for physicians to treat patients.(3)

The Samhita caters to surgical techniques listing over 300 surgical procedures and 120 surgical instruments. Additionally to 1,120 diseases, injuries and their treatments with over 700 medicinal herbs and their application.(4)

Jaya_Upadhyaya
@Jayalko1

KANAKA DURGAMMA, VIJAYWADA (AP)
#bharatmandir

Ma Kanakadurgeswari is the supreme Goddess of Andhra Pradesh, seated atop the Indrakilaparvatha at Vijayawada.
This area is called Bezawada as Shiva made a bejjam (hole) in the rocks so that Krishna river could flow freely.

Once, a Rishi Indra Keela prayed to Devi and asked her to reside on his head forever. Devi told him to wait in the form of a mountain in the holy plains of River Krishna.
Later, when Devi killed all demons, she settled on Keeladri as Mahishasura Mardini and fulfilled his wish.

In this place, Arjuna performed penance and fought with Shiva, who had appeared in the guise of Kiratha to win Pasupathastra, the most powerful weapon. So this place is also called phalguna theertha and Vijaywada on account of Arjun’s victory.

Adi Sankaracharya visited this shrine and worshipped the Devi. He installed SRICHAKRAM at the feet of Sri Kanaka Durga.

Adjacent to the Kanakadurga shrine is the shrine of the divine consort-Sri Malleswara Swamy on the Indrakeeladri.

Advertisement

Roger Grosse
@RogerGrosse

Important paper from Google on large batch optimization. They do impressively careful experiments measuring # iterations needed to achieve target validation error at various batch sizes. The main "surprise" is the lack of surprises. [thread]

https://t.co/7QIx5CFdfJ

The paper is a good example of lots of elements of good experimental design. They validate their metric by showing lots of variants give consistent results. They tune hyperparamters separately for each condition, check that optimum isn't at the endpoints, and measure sensitivity.

They have separate experiments where the hold fixed # iterations and # epochs, which (as they explain) measure very different things. They avoid confounds, such as batch norm's artificial dependence between batch size and regularization strength.

When the experiments are done carefully enough, the results are remarkably consistent between different datasets and architectures. Qualitatively, MNIST behaves just like ImageNet.

Importantly, they don't find any evidence for a "sharp/flat optima" effect whereby better optimization leads to worse final results. They have a good discussion of experimental artifacts/confounds in past papers where such effects were reported.

Thinking Patriot
@ThinkinPatriot

1⃣
At the moment #POTUS is sitting on a stack of #Trump cards, he's just waiting to unleash a royal flush!
He has court cases that will go to #SCOTUS and thanks to the Texas case, he's now aware how to file them properly under article 3 not 2, so SCOTUS will be forced to listen.

2⃣
#Trump now has the #DNI report. #Barr stepped down and can now be a witness, he did his job. #Durham is special counsel and can prosecute, in any state.
He’s letting civil, criminal and federal courts fail to handle the situation properly so he can use military tribunals.

3⃣
#Trump has ALL the data from the #NSA, the #Kraken supercomputer, the #Alice #supercomputer, and likely many more computers, unknown to us.
He has the dueling electors from 7 state legislatures. He has VP #Pence, as the final arbiter of which ballots to accept.

4⃣
#Trump has the #InsurrectionAct, the #NDAA, the national emergency, the 14th amendment, the 2018 executive order, the 2017 very first EO, the #Patriot Act, the #FISA warrants, the Declassification of everything, people swearing affidavits by the 1000s.

5⃣
#Trump has all the statistical data being analyzed along with the videos, emails, phone calls and bank transfer statements showing the coordination of the #coup d'etat.
He has #RICO and he has the #CrimesAgainstHumanity videos. #Wikileaks just dropped extensive information

Naval
@naval

How to Get Rich (without getting lucky):

Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy.

Understand that ethical wealth creation is possible. If you secretly despise wealth, it will elude you.

Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games.

You’re not going to get rich renting out your time. You must own equity - a piece of a business - to gain your financial freedom.