I'm not going to give you the usual lifehack stuff. Sure, using
Evernote, sleeping a lot, learning to listen, being grateful, all works
for many people. I don't like the word "lifehack". It takes a
lot of work to be really good at something in life. To get good at
something you need: a teacher, a passion, to read a lot of books, to
practice 3-4 hours a day for many days. There are shortcuts to
learning something. But if...
Few months back I came across a zen koan that gave me hard time understanding the underlying principle. All of the zen koans are like this but this one bugged me for months. I recently, in fact today itself found the answer to it. So I am going to talk about it and how I came across the underlying principle in this post. The koan is by Zhuangzi...
There is a thought experiment that goes like this,
Suppose there are 2 individuals each given a box. Each one of these boxes contain an object that none of them has ever seen. Each individual can see whats inside his box but not inside other person's box. Now they are asked to describe their object to each other without actually showing it. Now the question is, Is the description given by the owner sufficient for the complete...
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owner_cinh Thought Experiment
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