Week 36: Research on Laziness, Yuval Noah Harari, Allrounders in Cricket

On several instances this week I was deeply thinking as to what really motivates me.

The recurring answer was the learning and there doesn't seem to be any end to this.

I could be boxed based on my education, my profession and the such, but the deep desire to learn doesn't seem to contain me to one such a box.

I am always on the look out to learn something new which makes me change my views and understanding of many things.

Now the question is if this change is helping me grow or not.

As much I wish it to be true, the fact of the matter is that there is no easy way for me to find an answer, other than continuing my journey to trace my mastery.

Topics of the week:

1. Is laziness real?

The title of this article intruiged me and so unsurprisingly I went down the rabbit hole. What do you think - Does ‘Laziness’ Exist?

There is an intimate association between perceptions about laziness and failure, which feeds into apathy for socio-economically vulnerable sections of society. People are poor because they just aren’t doing enough. Theirs is a “choice mindset” according to some; that if people want, they can do everything, and thus emerge glorious. This reading of laziness then also ends up with people justifying social inequality

2. How (un)scientific Yuval Noah Harari's views are?

I am sure many of you have either read his book(s) or listened him speak.

I am referring to the famous Yuval Noah Harari and if you like his work I suggest you read this article where the author persuades us to reject the dangerous populist science of Yuval Noah Harari.

among Harari’s flock are some of the most powerful people in the world, and they come to him much like the ancient kings to their oracles

At the end of this in-depth analysis , it is written:

Harari has seduced us with his storytelling, but a close look at his record shows that he sacrifices science to sensationalism, often makes grave factual errors, and portrays what should be speculative as certain.

3. If you follow Cricket seriously, you will like this.

If you are a fan of cricket, you would know the impact an allrounder can have in any cricket match.

There seem to be 5 categories of players under this tag: 1. Genuine allrounders, 2. Bowling allrounders, 3. Batting allrounders, 4. Specialist batters, 5. Specialist bowlers.

The "genuine allrounder", remains (even more) controversial.

I found the question very powerful and the analysis presented here even more, to answer the question who is a genuine allrounder ?

From the internet/metaverse:

I found this article about an experiment by someone who wrote anonymously for an year.

What I was curious about was what would happen if I were at least nominally free of my ego. Would I write differently without my name tagging my writing, and all the attendant psycho-optics of who I think you, reader, think I am and my response to that? How?

I am considering such a project for myself and the funny part of it is that I will never be able to share more about it, not even with the subscribers of this newsletter ??

But maybe I can talk about my experience at the end of it?

Personal updates:

In the next two weeks, I will be sharing two articles covering the below topics.

1. why I create content on LinkedIn #CreateOnLinkedIn
2. my predictions on the future of work #myworkprediction

Stay tuned, as I am very excited about this, which will be shared as a part of my #LICreatorAccelerator program.

That's it for now, see you next week. Keep?tracing your mastery?#TraceYourMastery .

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