Prashant Patel

Take on Intellectual risk to do anything meaningful. Financial risk in the end gives hollowness of a kind. Intellectual freedom and risk taking should be basis for financial freedom and risk taking

‘Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” - Carl Jung

• We map the world, ourselves included

• Map is not the Territory

• The map is not all the Territory - it is bound to leave out things on Territory

• Maps are self reflexive - ie map maker may pretend to transcend the map but he is affecting the map making

If there’s one error of thought that most reliably holds me back from living an absorbing and meaningfully productive life, it’s the idea that certain things really matter, when the truth is that they don’t matter at all. Or at least nowhere near as much as I seem to believe.

An informed world view, or personal orientation, can be derived from the neurological, linguistic and behavioral consequences of acknowledging the inevitable limitations of both differences and similarities

There are the two convictions: one that focuses on the numbers and one that feels.

Your mind is for getting ideas not holding ideas