Resilience and Stubbornness

Fred Wilson, of the AVC, recently wrote about resilience on his blog:

“A friend and I dined last night at a restaurant that opened in our neighborhood last summer, in the middle of the pandemic. For the first six months of its existence, they could not…

Safety net

I was listening to Naval’s podcast today and one of the sayings he quoted in it was, “A sick man wants just one thing — to get better. A healthy man, on the other hand, wants ten thousand things.”

This has certainly been true in my own experience.

Regret

We can regret a decision that we take because things didn’t end up as we had hoped. Or, we can regret a decision that we didn’t take because, looking back, we can see that taking that decision would have been the better option.

Immersion is learning

The first time we learn a language is when we learn to speak as little kids. We learn the language because we constantly hear people around us speak that language, and we have no other means of verbal communication which introduces as strong reinforcement learning feedback loop.

Fundamentals

If you know the English alphabets and the grammar, and have a decent vocabulary (know the meanings of generally used words), you have the ability to read any book written in the language and to communicate your thoughts in that language.

Objectives

Yesterday, I was talking to one of my mentees and he had a few questions on whether it would be better to do MBA or a different Master’s degree, or to simply continue working in a product role, whether to study in India or outside the country, etc.