“The ultimate answer to the question “Why read?” is that only deep, constant reading fully establishes and augments an autonomous self. Until you become yourself, what benefit can you be to others?” – Harold Bloom
Reading helps us to become our full Autonomous-Self. How else do we know people at the intimate level, then Reading. Books help to create a greater self-knowledge and teaches about our values and capabilities. They also challenge us to help us grow. Once you finish reading, it gives us an immense confidence and satisfaction, that cannot be comprehended by any other human emotions.
Just go read, anything and everything that you can get hold off.
It’s almost impossible to know if one’s personal, financial, business or career success is due to luck or skill. But one true aspect to be aware is it takes many years for skills to win over luck.
Big trends rarely have one cause. In some endeavors like selling books and movies, luck plays a larger role. There is a paradox of skill. As skill improves, performance becomes more consistent, and therefore luck becomes more important. As individuals advance in their careers, their duties often slide toward the luck side. The tools that made an executive very successful as the head of operations may be of little use when he is promoted to CEO, a position in which it’s much more difficult to find causes for specific effects. When luck stands between cause and effect, giving and receiving quality feedback becomes much more difficult.
It’s easy to underestimate change. The earth keeps rotating and we don’t even feel it. The plants keeps growing, and we almost never could see it with our naked eyes. Because any major changes happens slower, its easy for human brain to assume change hardly occurs.
With recent COVID-19 situations, when we see the valuation of some new Tech companies likeSnowflake skyrocketing, older generations find it harder to comprehend. The traditionalists respond with rebellion. It can take a generation for a great new technology to reach its potential because it takes that long for the older holdout generation to move along. This phenomenon is well formulated by Max Planck, “Planck’s principle is the view that scientific change does not occur because individual scientists change their mind, but rather that successive generations of scientists have different views”.
Science always progresses one funeral at a time. But Why does this occur? This is because success plant the seeds of its own destruction through complacency and leverage. We’re more likely to become locked into a single view, unwilling to abandon what’s worked even as the world evolves. And bad times always plants the seeds of turnaround as well. Turnaround is always planted through opportunity and panic-driven problem solving. In Business, strategies works and fails, trends comes and disappears, companies peak and fall, idea flourish and diminish. Stuff evolves, paradigm shifts.
Maverick 