This month I was diving deep into Murphy's law and was trying to equate that with life.
Have you ever noticed this, that everytime a bread falls down it falls with the jam side down. Seems like a conspiracy against you? But this can be explained using murphy's law, which says If anything can go wrong, It will. The story behind this is that Edward A. Murphy, an engineer working on Air Force Project MX981, (a project) designed to see how much sudden deceleration a person can stand in a crash. One day, after finding that a transducer was wired wrong, he cursed the technician responsible and said, "If there is any way to do it wrong, he'll find it. "The contractor's project manager kept a list of "laws" and added this one, which he called Murphy's Law, and after that many people started revising this and produced other corollaries. But weirdly, science supports this pessimistic idea, in 1996, scientist Robert AJ Mathew, proved that it isn't about luck or something but is completely related to physics. Wild right?
Murphy's Law taps into our tendency to dwell on the negative and overlook the positive, captures our imagination and that's why its so powerful
The Big Hundred- Jeremy Kourdi
This book is the compressed version of concepts from the world's best business books. It summarizes the concept and theories of business over just two pages and fills knowledge in the holes of your brain, and the insights and concepts shared in these books are driving the mind of the most successful people in this world.
Making peace with the ambiguity of progress- Paras Chopra.
If progress exists and is in the positive direction, we should perhaps spend our life accelerating it. This is what Silicon Valley is hell bent on doing.
If progress exists and is in the negative direction, we should perhaps slow it down. This is what the growing Extinction Rebellion is hell bent on doing.
If progress doesn’t exist, we should perhaps give up trying to control the world and simply play in the garden. This is what kids in my apartment building are hell bent on doing.
The Science of Fire
So the question for this month is: If you suddenly get 20K followers in Instagram/twitter, what will you do? what will be your reaction?
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