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The Success Paradox

What if someone told you that your success is an outcome of your luck? Is that enough for you to lash out and explain how your hard work and dedication have gotten you to the position where you are right now? What if I told you that your success is indeed a product of two contradictions? So why is the nature of your success contradictory? Before you could understand that, let's take a couple of minutes to get to know these contradictions. Contradiction 1: Your belief that it's your hard work and countless sleepless nights that have abled you to climb that success ladder and stand at the top. But, on the other hand, Contradiction 2: Your awareness that Contradiction 1 is a lie and your luck has played an important role in getting you where you are. This antithetical concept is the Success Paradox. But why does your success require to be paradoxical? The truth is, it doesn't. But it's the best approach that one should take to remain in touch with reality. It is human natu...

THE FERMI PARADOX

 Our universe is infinite... so we can't talk about it in quantitative terms. To quantify it, let's take a look around and observe our observable universe which has a diameter of around 93.016 billion light-years . Inside this diameter, as per the New Horizons space probe , there are at least 100 billion galaxies . "Billion" can often be overlooked because of our inability to imagine the number of zeroes that it encompasses.  100 Billion = 100,000,000,000 Inside these 100 billion galaxies, there are almost one billion trillion stars. 1 Billion Trillion = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Even if one percent of these stars are like our sun, there are still 10 Million Trillion sun-like stars; 10 Million Trillion =  10,000,000,000,000,000,000   And if 1% of them have an Earth-like planet revolving around them then there are almost 100,000 trillion planets in the observable universe which, theoretically speaking, could give birth and sustain LIFE! 100,000 Trillion = 100,00...

The Grandfather Paradox

This is possibly the first thing that comes to mind when it registers the word, Paradox!  The Grandfather Paradox  is, virtually speaking, maybe the grandfather of all the paradoxes. This is because it deals with the most complex and most convoluted concept of all time, Time! As I mentioned in one of the previous episodes, " Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occur in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future." and time is something not to be messed with. Did your mother ever tell you not to play with that one kid who used to bully everyone? Well, consider time to be this kid's arrogant, grumpy, and angry grandfather. You wanna play with him? Consider yourself doomed. So, what is the Grandfather Paradox? Let's take an example, imagine that your grandfather accumulated a fortune of a thousand lifetimes during his life, and now it was your turn to inherit it all. On the day of announcing his will, ...

WELCOME TO SEASON TWO

Season Two of NotionWave Podcast is in the works. And this time around, it's all about:  ~PARADOXES~ 1. Episode One - The Grandfather Paradox! 2. Episode Two - The Fermi Paradox!