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The mathematician and philosopher Gian-Carlo Rota spent much of his career at MIT, where students adored him for his engaging, passionate lectures. In 1996, Rota gave a talk entitled “Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught,” which contains valuable advice for getting people to pay attention to your ideas.

— Life Lessons From Mathematician and Philosopher Gian-Carlo Rota

The Knowledge Project Podcast

+ Loch Kelly is a meditation teacher, psychotherapist, and founder of the Open-Hearted Awareness Institute. We dive into mindfulness, consciousness, how to not let your emotions take over, ways to access your hidden awareness, debugging your mind, and so much more.

+ Sendhil Mullainathan is the Professor of Computation and Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the author of Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much. Sendhil reflects on how creativity is the marrying of ideation and filtration, direct versus associative memory, what we can do to get better, rules versus decisions, positioning over predicting, outcome over ego and so much more.

A QUOTE TO THINK ABOUT

“The curse of modernity is that we are increasingly populated by a class of people who are better at explaining than understanding, or better at explaining than doing.”

— Nassim Taleb in Skin in the Game

TINY THOUGHT

Eulogies are an interesting window into how to live.

They talk about the shots you take, not the ones you miss; The epic once-in-a-lifetime love, not settling; Who you are and how you treat people, not what you signal.

You get one life. Make it count.

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Until next week,
Shane

P.S. I had no idea.