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2018 in Books #1 : Outliers

My membership at the Evanston Public Library is my best-worst decision. Best, because I now have e-books delivered right into my Kindle without having me trudge in snow to borrow or return a book and the worst, because it is going to make me lazy and unfit.  Cut to the chase, Outliers has been a good start to 2018. At a modest 300 odd pages, Malcolm Gladwell writes a deeply researched and critically analysed account of success stories that we know of.  | The biggest takeaway you can get from Outliers  is the "other side" of stories, which are often ignored for the sake of glorification of the achievement. | It was enjoyable to see how tiny, seemingly inconsequential factors can help a person go a long way. A popular example the book talks about is Bill Gates' rise as a billionaire when he was a college dropout.  Treating his story superficially has led to popularizing the opinion, "hey, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg were college drop outs
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Mock My Misery

College can be miserable especially during exams in an institute where the word organization, planning, sensitivity, sensibility and humanity really do not exist.

It has been so so crucial to develop a sense of humour in these last four years to help get through with hectic schedules, exams without a break, syllabus changes at the eleventh hour and basically a lot of shitty politics.

The catch is this, if you still like the course and your mind hasn't been sucked dry by these leeches, and wish to pursue it, the only way I've seen fit is to laugh about it. Make it hilarious. Mock your misery. Helps deal with the stress anyway.

Had it not been for my capacity to sarcastically laugh at this shit, I am sure I would have aged 10 years with all the free radicals that would have formed in the process.

Just cheel and laf.

Edit: I think this is the root cause for my disturbing sense of humour. 

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