In Pursuit of Wisdom

I listen to many speakers, watch youtube lectures, follow tweets as well as posts from LinkedIn, Medium and other blogs. Over time I came to listen to some of the speakers repeatedly either for their eloquence in speech or for their insightful message. Here I am compiling a list of best of them as per my taste. Please feel free to compile your own and share with me so that I can enrich my list.  Shykh Yasir Qadhi  - American Sunni Muslim Scholar and one of the most eloquent speakers. Check out his  youtube videos . Richard Feynman  - Famous Physicist. Check out his youtube lectures, twitter quotes or read his 2 books  Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!  and  What Do You Care What Other People Think? Naval Ravikanth  - A serial entrepreneur in bay area. Follow  his tweets  and listen to his lectures in seminars. Jordan Bernt Peterson  - Clinical psychologist and writer of  12 rules For Life . Follow his  youtub...

In 27th May 2018 late afternoon in one of my regular visits to my friend Ashfaq's house, I found him with the book 12 Rules For Life: An Antidote To Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson. He mentioned that he recently ordered it from Amazon but after reading part of the forward he was thinking to return it unless I am interested to read it. My eyes just sparkled as I got some great references of books like Sapiens, Thinking Fast and Slow, The Three-Body Problem (trilogy) etc from him in the past. So he gifted me the book and I started reading it. It's difficult to over estimate how much I liked the book and even more difficult to explain in how many dimensions I discovered a non-fiction book can enrich your thoughts. The book talks about 12 life lessons that you can follow to make the best of your existence. The lesson titles are given below and the titles don't represent properly what he actually means when you read the chapters in detail. Stand up straight with your shou...