Deepak

Product thinker and dad. Always reading and learning. Driven by curiosity and sound logic. Thoughts my own.

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Soon you’ll have forgotten everything; soon everyone will have forgotten you.

Marcus Aurelius

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Quickness and nimbleness of thought, economy of argument, and imaginative examples are the qualities crucial to good thinking.

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“What happens next?” is a more approachable question, and proves to be a much more fruitful question, than “Why are things the way they are?” “What happens next?” is an approachable question because we can do experiments to answer it.

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The artist so frees himself from personal concerns that to artistic perception it is all one whether we see the sunset from a prison or from a palace.

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“Art and nothing but art,” said Nietzsche; “we have art in order not to die of the truth.”

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Avoid risk and you drift.
Chase everything and you crash.
Growth lives in the rhythm:
small wins, bold shots.

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To learn about ourselves we have to observe what we do and say as if from the outside, and ask others who know us to tell us what they see.

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Knowing your abilities cannot be separated from knowing your limits.

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We are too confident that we can spot what drives other people when we often don’t even know what’s driving ourselves.

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In too many arguments people talk past each other because they use the same words to mean different things.

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Numbers do not just speak for themselves. Until we make sense of them, they are just digits.

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The wisest of all, in my opinion, is he who can, if only once a month, call himself a fool – a faculty unheard of nowadays. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Nature does not ask your permission, she has nothing to do with your wishes, and whether you like her laws or dislike them, you are bound to accept her as she is, and consequently all her conclusions. A wall, you see, is a wall . . . and so on, and so on.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY

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Because everything depends on everything else, nothing can be understood in isolation.

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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. — William James.

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This isn’t just the path of science—it’s the path of progress. The best thinkers, the boldest creators, don’t seek comfort in what they know. They challenge, they test, they embrace uncertainty. Because the fastest way to the truth isn’t holding on tighter. It’s letting go.

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Science is a dance with doubt, a relentless pursuit of truth through the art of being wrong. We don’t cling to certainty—we break it apart, piece by piece, until something truer emerges.

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Einstein shattered the clockwork universe, revealing time as a river that bends. Quantum mechanics unraveled reality itself, showing us a world where particles exist in probabilities. Every breakthrough begins with a question: What if we’ve been looking at this all wrong?

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If you can link disparate ideas from multiple fields and add a little random creativity, you might be able to create something new.

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Good readers are good thinkers; good thinkers tend to be great readers and in the process learn to be even better thinkers.