Meet Pathak

Mathematician || Startup-enthusiast || Mystic || @alumIITK

[Meet Pathak @meet_91]

@Astro_Panditji_ 01/01/1991 9th house

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Underrated life advice: Make peace with being misunderstood. Every meaningful path looks strange to someone who would never walk it.

[Suhail @Suhail]

My favorite @elonmusk quote that I often send friends:

Do not fear losing. “You will lose,” Musk says. “It will hurt the first fifty times. When you get used to losing, you will play each game with less emotion.” You will be more fearless, take more risks.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Major cheat code for life: Master the art of the fresh start. From a bad morning. From a bad interaction. From a missed workout. From a poor decision. The goal isn't to avoid the fall. It's to shorten the time between the fall and the reset. Fast recovery compounds.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Robert Greene said it right:

“Eventually, the time that was not spent on learning skills will catch up with you, and the fall will be painful.”

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“One of the most underrated skills you can learn is the ability to ignore your mood and stick with the plan.”

[Raj Shamani @rajshamani]

It takes 66 days to build a habit, but only 3 days of slacking to completely kill your momentum. This is why consistency matters. The bridge to an exceptional life is built entirely on the days you didn't feel like showing up.

[Shubhvani @shubhvanii]

There is a Japanese legend that says:
if you miss the bus, maybe you avoided the accident. If you got rejected, maybe you were saved from the wrong place. If they left, maybe they made room for who is coming. The universe protects you in ways that look like bad luck at first. Trust the detour.🍂

[Woke Eminent @WokePandemic]

A bull cried so much before being slaughtered that the earth beneath him became wet with his tears. 💔💔

He struggled, he trembled, he looked around with fear in his eyes as if begging for mercy, as if asking one silent question

What wrong have I done to deserve this?

His tears were real,His fear was real,His pain was real.

When a helpless living being stands before us shaking with fear, crying for life, trusting us to spare him… can ending that life truly be called an act of faith?

Can any religion ask for compassion on one side and ignore tears on the other?

Before the knife falls, before blood touches the ground listen to the cry of that bull.

If his tears can wet the earth, shouldn’t they also touch our hearts?

Will such slaughter in the name of religion ever be justified?

[D Prasanth Nair @DPrasanthNair]

Very profound
One's birth is a matter of luck.
One's death is a matter of time.
But how one is remembered is a matter of One's Karma

Rcvd from WA

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

"Until death, all defeat is psychological." - Marcus Aurelius

Refuse everything that would lead most people to give up.

Refuse it.
Rise from the dead 1000 times.
Commit to never stay down & never give up.
Everything you want is on the other side of struggle.

[Meet Pathak @meet_91]

A lot of things impact your wellbeing and die inside you even when you were not ar fault.

[Kevin Szabo @KevinSzabo14]

Not having a clear deadline is the most common way to waste many years.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

I often wonder how many extraordinary people wasted their entire lives waiting to feel ready. Gathering more information. Creating the perfect plan. Simulating progress. Convincing themselves they’d start tomorrow. Readiness is a myth. Action creates clarity. Go do the thing.

[Meet Pathak @meet_91]

@Sanjay_Dixit @BajpayeeManoj And both of them are Pandits. What a shame.

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Elon Musk explains his 5-step algorithm for solving any problem:

"The most common mistake of smart engineers is to optimize a thing that should not exist."

"I have this very basic first principles algorithm that I run as a mantra."

Elon breaks it down:

Step 1: Question the requirements.

"Make the requirements less dumb. The requirements are always dumb to some degree, no matter how smart the person who gave you those requirements. You have to start there, because otherwise you could get the perfect answer to the wrong question."

Step 2: Try to delete it.

"Try to delete the part or the process step entirely. If you're not forced to put back at least 10% of what you delete, you're not deleting enough. Most people feel like they've succeeded if they haven't been forced to put things back in. But actually they haven't, they've been overly conservative and left things in that shouldn't be there."

Step 3: Optimize or simplify.

"The most common mistake of smart engineers is to optimize a thing that should not exist. So you don't optimize until after you've tried to delete."

Step 4: Speed it up.

"Any given thing can be done faster than you think. But you shouldn't speed things up until you've tried to delete it and optimize it otherwise, you're speeding up something that shouldn't exist."

Step 5: Automate.

"And then the fifth thing is to automate it."

Elon explains why the order matters:

"I've gone backwards so many times where I've automated something, sped it up, simplified it, and then deleted it. I got tired of doing that. So that's why I have this mantra."

[Dan Go @CoachDanGo]

One of the greatest cheat codes in life is to never get offended. Train yourself to have a thick skin. Don't take things personally. Let others disagree with you. Being easily offended means you're easily manipulated. Want more peace? Avoid getting offended.

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

A rule that will accelerate your career: If you bring a problem, bring context. If you bring context, bring options. If you bring options, bring a recommendation. People trust people who help them think. Anyone can spot an issue, few can actually help move things forward.

[Harsh Goenka @hvgoenka]

Spend more time with the few people who truly uplift you.
Prioritise the few actions that move you forward.
Learn from the few sources that actually change your thinking.
Eliminate the few things that create most of your stress.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

The fastest way to learn is to try, fail, and write down why you failed.