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Reading now: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein

As I mentioned in one of my tweets before, how can someone miss a book recommended by Bill Gates. It is a common believe that a person should early in this field of expertise to get the more mileage. But when Epstein look closely at athletes, Nobel winners, artists and other successful people, it found that this notion is not correct. What else he found and other insights of the book, I will keep sharing on my twitter account.

Next read : "Making India Great" by Dr. Aparna Pande

Release Date: 13th August 2020 Next read after the one we are currently reading. Eagerly waiting to start it.

Completed: Scarcity by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir

What a fantastic book this is!!! Few take away from the book: * Scarcity makes mind thinks in one dimension only. It reduces the ability to think in multiple dimension. * Scarcity can be of many type like money scarcity, time scarcity, food scarcity (dieting) etc. * Scarcity occupies mental bandwidth, in the same way as back end processes does to the computer processes. More back end processes means slower computer (as computer resources eaten up be the processes). * Scarcity triggers tunneling effect - which means mind looks only at the solution of the scarcity only and nothing outside the scarcity. * "Proactive Interference" - which means we saw things of our scarcity only. It means our mind just got stuck in the scarcity and stop conceptualizing outside that. * "People on dieting perform bad in cognitive tasks". * "Planning fallacy" - which means we plan our work very optimistically and leaves little head room for the contingencies. This happens because

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