Learning to Live

Chapter 1

I walk down a street and there's a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. It takes forever to get out. It's my fault.

Chapter 2

I walk down the same street. I fall in the hole again. It still takes a long time to get out. It's not my fault.

Chapter 3

I walk down the same street. I fall in the hole again. It's becoming a habit. It is my fault. I get out immediately.

Chapter 4

I walk down the same street and see the deep hole in the sidewalk. I walk around it.

Chapter 5

I walk down a different street.

(By Sogyal Rinpoche, Tibetan Lama)

Note: There are many sites where this simple book of 5 Chapters appear. A Google search revealed that the earliest it was published was in Nov, 2003, at https://www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20031102/spectrum/lessons.htm.

The source that mentioned the original author's name is: https://www.emofree.com/article-archive/inspiration/chapters-on-change-articles.html?Itemid=0, the website maintained by Gary Craig, the founder of EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique.

Don't Let What You Know Limit What You Imagine - Bill Taylor - Harvard Business Review

What's knowledge got to do with it?

If we were to pull ideas out of what we know, the world may not have been where it is today. Imagination lends itself to creativity. We daydream, we imagine, we concoct ideas, and we progress by putting these ideas into practice ... an excellent article, that is relevant today.

Don't Let What You Know Limit What You Imagine - Bill Taylor - Harvard Business Review

Stock Picking Cat

 Gingertail, my white-and-ginger cat is, as all cats are, curious.

She was about 3-4 years old, when she gets fascinated by the movement of the stock ticker on a business news channel on television.

She then proceeds to chase after the right-to-left moving ticker and, appears to be selecting stocks from the moving sticker. Here is a short video:

https://youtu.be/7xH2_nC4MXs