Swimmer’s Body Illusion

The Swimmer’s Body illusion works because the world is complicated and the mind is in a hurry. Both facts are unlikely to change.

What the illusion teaches is not distrust of the eyes but respect for the gap between seeing and knowing. In that gap live most of our avoidable mistakes.

The village panchayat and the housing society meeting are the same animal in different clothes: five people deciding, fifty people complaining, and everyone leaving wiser than the minutes suggest.

Society is a long conversation; the only question is whether you are listening or merely waiting to speak. Carry it lightly. Ideas, like umbrellas, are useful only when actually opened.