Author of the Health and Wealth Paradox 📚 Investment Professional 💹 INFS Exercise & Nutrition Science Coach 💪🥗 Blog 👇 https://xitter.cf/t.co/ltRRAfmPPt
Joined April 2013
- Tweets13.7K
- Following828
- Followers4.2K
- Likes27K
Pinned Tweet
Anyone looking for some Inspiration to get a fitness routine in place for 2023,look no further
The first pic my dad could barely squat,couldn't sit cross legged and had never worked out in the gym in his 63 years on Earth
Things change sooner than you expect when you begin..
Epic episode of Seinfeld on the Acquired podcast.
Every time I read or listen to anything about Jerry Seinfeld, I wonder why Malcolm Gladwell didn't use his story for the 10,000 hour principle in his book Outliers.
This man is the definition of the 10,000 hour rule.
100% agree with Ashish.
AQI is rubbishly high here in Mumbai, still went for a long run to chase the thrill.
Long term doing this regularly is not a good idea.
If you can comfortably run a 10K or more in Mumbai's AQI, running anywhere else in the world will be a cakewalk.
Lungs are being conditioned.
Ankush Datar retweeted
Beautifully written and something very relevant to me personally. Also reminds me of what my father keeps saying.
Pain in the short term is to learn in the middle term and gain in the long term
"No job is beneathe me, I used to clean toilets when I was young. I have cleaned more toilets than all of you combined. Some that I can’t unsee.
You can’t show me a task that is beneath me.”
- Jensen Huang
Jensen Huang, whose company is worth upwards of 5 trillion dollars today, said this as part of his talk at a prestigious university while telling the students about the importance of suffering and resilience.
Of course I got inspired by these words, else I wouldn’t be referencing them as the opening of this blog post, but it is not only because of Huang rather, it is a validation of all the inspiring people whom I have had the privilege to observe or work under.
Every single one of those people follow this trait.
From them I have understood the value of a certain amount of suffering in our lives to be able to get something meaningful out of life, be it in my job or my everyday life.
In today's blog post I wrote about the importance of suffering in a world that thinks it has become optional.
Penned down my thoughts, experiences and musings on suffering and my definition of the suffering quotient.
Link in the first comment 👇
Happy Suffering :)
"No job is beneathe me, I used to clean toilets when I was young. I have cleaned more toilets than all of you combined. Some that I can’t unsee.
You can’t show me a task that is beneath me.”
- Jensen Huang
Jensen Huang, whose company is worth upwards of 5 trillion dollars today, said this as part of his talk at a prestigious university while telling the students about the importance of suffering and resilience.
Of course I got inspired by these words, else I wouldn’t be referencing them as the opening of this blog post, but it is not only because of Huang rather, it is a validation of all the inspiring people whom I have had the privilege to observe or work under.
Every single one of those people follow this trait.
From them I have understood the value of a certain amount of suffering in our lives to be able to get something meaningful out of life, be it in my job or my everyday life.
In today's blog post I wrote about the importance of suffering in a world that thinks it has become optional.
Penned down my thoughts, experiences and musings on suffering and my definition of the suffering quotient.
Link in the first comment 👇
Happy Suffering :)
Being extremely bold will open opportunities for you where people 10x more talented than you won't dare to go due to the fear of embarrassment.
Love this book because of the way it's structured.
At the end of a long day, I can read 2-3 pages if I feel like reading a health genre and I can pick up any chapter and just go with the flow.
Starting reading this awesome book by @hubermanlab, ended up reading in his voice 😅
It's 540 pages long excluding the acknowledgements so I'm gonna take my own sweet time reading this over the years.
It's like a manual that can be picked up any time, like Tools of Titans.
Lifted single-leg raises on the full rack for 4 sets of 6 reps.
Feels like a full-circle moment because I remember around 2010–2011, I was a beginner in the gym who could hardly lift 15 to 20 kgs.
There was this lean dude with huge legs who came up and easily did 100 kgs for 4 sets, then walked away for his next movement.
My friend and I were just standing there admiring him.
Now, having reached this level myself after a decade, I hope I can be that ray of hope for someone else watching the same way that dude was for me.
I will never forget him.
Ankush Datar retweeted
Every successful style of investing has an element of contrarianism in it that the investor needs to understand to stand out with the returns they are able to extract from it, be it a growth, value, momentum, or whatever style of investing that the investor chooses.
→ A wires business that went from hated to loved.
→ A fashion retailer that looked 'relatively expensive' for large stretches of time but still managed to deliver phenomenal returns.
→ A PSU miner that looked dirt cheap and still has for an extended period of time.
This weekend I wrote about why being a contrarian is easy on paper, and extremely hard in real time.
Contrarian thinking does not mean doing the exact opposite of what someone else is doing, but rather, it means thinking differently.
It's a question you keep asking:
What does the crowd believe today, and do I see something that it doesn't with the style that I have chosen.
Briefly covered various styles of contrarianism in investing and a brilliant book that shaped a lot of my mental models.
Happy Reading :)
Link in comments 👇
Every successful style of investing has an element of contrarianism in it that the investor needs to understand to stand out with the returns they are able to extract from it, be it a growth, value, momentum, or whatever style of investing that the investor chooses.
→ A wires business that went from hated to loved.
→ A fashion retailer that looked 'relatively expensive' for large stretches of time but still managed to deliver phenomenal returns.
→ A PSU miner that looked dirt cheap and still has for an extended period of time.
This weekend I wrote about why being a contrarian is easy on paper, and extremely hard in real time.
Contrarian thinking does not mean doing the exact opposite of what someone else is doing, but rather, it means thinking differently.
It's a question you keep asking:
What does the crowd believe today, and do I see something that it doesn't with the style that I have chosen.
Briefly covered various styles of contrarianism in investing and a brilliant book that shaped a lot of my mental models.
Happy Reading :)
Link in comments 👇
Ankush Datar retweeted
Write more. Write to think. Write until you're no longer confused. Write about the problems you already solved. Write for the person you were 2 years ago. Write so you never lose what took you years to figure out. A simple writing habit can change absolutely everything.
To connect the dots for your unique perspectives, you have to first build the dots.
And building the dots involves reading, writing, meeting people, experiencing things.
The current state of the markets takes me back to 2023 when I was completing the chapter on compounding for the book and I wanted to meet @SahilKapoor and get his insights, the idea was to get different perspectives on the concept.
We were nerding about various topics till we landed on evolution.
He explained his views on the process of compounding by drawing on the theory of evolution, and mentions that compounding involves days with sudden leaps in progress, but one must endure the boring and stagnant phases for years.
This phenomenon can be explained through a concept in evolution known as 'Punctuated Equilibrium'
Which suggests that most species remain unchanged for millions of years, followed by rapid periods of change, leading to the emergence of new species.
Similarly, adopting high-performance habits and repeating them leads to results in a form of punctuated equilibrium.
The outcomes can be non-linear, occurring either early or late.
This means our actions guarantee results, but not the exact timing of their fruition.
Sahil epitomizes repetition, he can perform any task over and over again continuously, and that's what's required in the never-ending world of our jobs, workout routines or investment processes.
He emphasizes doing things 'without the expectation of closure'.
I totally resonated with that concept back then and it found it's place in the book.
Using those same principles today, one can equate this concept with the current state of our markets over the years with the state of Punctuated Equilibrium.
