Dec 22, 2022
This Vs That
Welcome to this week’s blog. If not anything else, I hope that you find this blog easy to read. It contains just a bunch of related words — pairs that are sometimes at odds with each other, representing dilemmas that I had to contend with, throughout this year (and I suspect, for the rest of my life).
I deliberated between using “Vs” (versus) and “and”. I finally chose “Vs” as I thought it has better effect. My idea is not to pit one word against another — not to say that one is better than the other. I do find myself and others around me, indulging in one when we should be doing the other. And I believe that this confusion lies at the root of most of our unhappiness.
A couple of examples:
Rich Vs Wealthy: In our pursuit of becoming wealthy, we end up living materially rich lives and never really get wealthy. On the other hand, many wealthy people are inconspicuous just because they do not try to live “rich” lives
Plans Vs Planning: Once we arrive at a plan for any goal of ours, we tend to think of the plan as sacrosanct and consequently try our hardest to stick to plan. In most cases, the value of a plan does not lie in the “plan” itself but in the process of “planning”
Rich Vs Wealthy
Plans Vs Planning
Quantitative Vs Qualitative
Noise Vs Data
Complicated Vs Complex
Simple Vs Easy
Want vs Need
Investing in Stocks Vs Investing in businesses
Deterministic Vs Probabilistic
Horse Vs Jockey
Effort Vs Capital
Psychology Vs Spirituality
Religion Vs Spirituality
Past Vs Future
What Vs Why
Theoretical Vs Empirical
Newtonian Vs Darwinian
Diversification Vs Asset Allocation
Linear Vs Compounding
Bias Vs Heuristics
Miserly Vs Frugal
Love Vs Indifference
Job Vs Career
Indifference Vs Even-tempered
Tourist Vs Traveler
Loan Vs Equity
Work from Home Vs Work from office
Effort Vs Time
Hate Vs Indifference
Strength Vs Flexibility
Fragility Vs Robustness
Salary Vs Stock Options
Robustness Vs Anti-fragility
Weight Training Vs Calisthenics
Crypto Vs Blockchain
Cardio Vs Strength Training
Forecasting Vs Prescience
Know Vs Knowing
PayTM, GPay, PhonePe Vs BHIM
Cricket Vs Soccer
Transactional Vs Compounding
Badminton Vs Soccer
5K Vs Marathon
Carbs Vs Protein
Marathon Vs Ultra-Marathon
Knowing Vs Acting
NetFlix Vs Disney
Planning Vs Executing
Teaching Vs Learning
Learning Vs Questioning
College Education Vs Real Life
Data Vs Information
Symptom Vs Root Cause
Information Vs Knowledge
Knowledge Vs Wisdom
Timing the market Vs Time in the Market
Conscious Vs Instinctive
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