018 Mental Links

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Hope you're having an amazing weekend! Here's your weekly Amazing Things & Ideas Newsletter. Find one original idea from my side followed by the List.

Mental Links

Our minds are incredible at linking and connecting things.
Mental links are responsible for how we make sense of the world. We simplify complexities, and find similarities through mental links. Our minds are powerful at making these sorts of links. But we ought to understand and create better links intentionally.
Mental links are like a lens through which our thoughts see the world. And thoughts are famous for shaping a human being.
Firstly, understand that mental links sometimes lie on the evil end of the spectrum and do mislead, phenomena popularly termed as human tendencies or cognitive biases. But creating the right links (a continuous effort!) would mostly eliminate them.
Today, most people are specialists. Those who focus primarily on one particular activity. They may have a profession in which their job is to be good at one thing, and that thing only. For example, an engineer or accountant. Or perhaps just a little higher, they may have a bunch of small things to be good at (and are good at), but which fit a definite niche. For example, head of marketing or finance in a retail brand.
Being a specialist is just fine. But often has some downsides ...

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The Amazing Things & Ideas List

• Stoic quote to reflect upon:
  "Some men have left off living before they have begun." — Seneca

• Audiobook I'm listening to:
  Cosmos by Carl Sagan
  In one of the bestselling science books of all time (one of the the best) astronomers ever, Carl Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space. Cosmos retraces the fourteen billion years of cosmic evolution that have transformed matter into consciousness, exploring such topics as the origin of life, the human brain, Egyptian hieroglyphics, spacecraft missions, the death of the Sun, the evolution of galaxies, and the forces and individuals who helped to shape modern science.
  A must read, rather a greater listen for everyone.

• Short book I'm reading:
  Manuscript Found in Accra by Paulo Coelho
  Ever since I discovered The Alchemist, I've started to really enjoy Paulo Coelho's writings. This book is a set of questions and answers about love, loyalty, fear, loss, courage, anxiety, miracles, beauty, solitude, success and all the related emotional difficulties faced by people. A tenderly calming read.

• Song I cannot get out of my head: 
  Lo que pasó, pasó by Daddy Yankee

All articles published on (my blog) arjunkhemani.com this week:

• Mental Links (#108)

• A father who (accidently) shot his own kid (#107)

Until next Sunday...
Arjun

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