Introduction — A lesson a day

There is this quote. Don’t know who wrote it, or said it first. It goes…

if I have seen further, I have done so by standing on the shoulders of giants.

In my life, I have been super lucky to have a few giants that gave me generous space on their shoulders. Whatever little I know, whatever little money I have, its all because of these giants.

Image from Getty Images. Original here.

So I was thinking, how do I pay it forward.

One way to do so would be to become a giant and lend the shoulder to others. Which I am not sure if I am capable of.

The other is, gather wisdom of these giants and make these super easy and accessible to more people. And this is when this idea of making 3-bullet-point summaries of great ideas came in.

So what if I consumed one idea (from TED talks, various podcasts, long-form articles and other media available freely on the internet) each day and captured the key points of that idea in 3 bullet points?

Why would I do that?

How would it help? In three bullet points,

1. Accelerate learning for others — while 18 minutes or less is a fantastic duration (for TED Talks) to learn from the experience of a doer, thinker etc., the podcasts (and conversations) can be longer, and the long-form text pieces could be hard to consume. What if I squeeze the lessons from these further into chunks that can be consumed in less than 3 minutes?
2. Helps me reinforce what I have learnt — afterall whatever we write sort of gets reinforced. No?
3. This is the most important. This exercise will help me do 2 things. A, get into the habit of consuming one piece of media everyday that makes me better. And B, will force me to write everyday. And both of these are things that I ought to do, if I want to be a better version of self. And be a better storyteller.

What do you think?

Help me as I start this journey. Point out to pieces that I ought to consume. Tell me of the greatest TED talks that have had the greatest impact on your lives. Which podcast I must listen to? How do I accelerate learning all the more?

Tell me if this is helping you. Give me feedback on how I capture the essence of these lessons. How do I become a better author?

And most importantly, is this helping you becoming even a tad better?

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