Via Truth&Lies in Literature TEN COMMANDMENTS **1. THOU SHALT NOT DRINK, SMOKE OR TAKE DRUGS **To be a writer you need all the brains you’ve got. **2. THOU SHALT NOT HAVE EXPENSIVE HABITS **A writer is born from talent and time – time to observe, to study, to think. So you can’t afford to waste a single hour earning money for non-essentials. Unless you were lucky enough to he born rich, you had better be prepared to live without too many worldly goods.

This is a free Kindle book that I stumbled upon. This book is basically designed to coach you through a piece of work be it writing a book / developing a software / creating a model / new venture / new product/ new service etc. This book is not so much about “what you should do”, but more about “how you should you do it”. In any creative endeavor, most of us would agree that the biggest obstacle is “internal”.

It is profoundly important to read around the area that you are working on; more so in mathematics. Theorems that you see in the texts are usually a result of ardous efforts / long drawn fights between mathematicians / result of being in extreme hysteria(Cantor for example)/ family duels(Bernoulli)/ Open air competitions(Solution to cubic & quartic polynomial ). It is important for any person building stochastic models to have a thorough understanding of Markov chains as they typically lead to random walks and Brownian motion concepts .