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Apart from the fun with the 80-20 attention our mind plays with our memory, I was making another significant observation in the session. History of research is replete with examples how Mathematicians, Scientists, Economists, Linguists, Historians, Cyclists, Market Technicians, Behaviorologists have witnessed overlaps in research thought and work. Across the centuries, mathematicians like Euclid (350 B.C) said similar aspects of divine ratio like Georg Ohm (1789). We had economists like Thomas Malthus (1766) seeing their work extended first by mathematicians like Pierre Verhulst (1804) and in current times by scientists like Theodore Modis. Even Pareto principle is quoted simultaneously with a famous linguist Kingsley Zipf (1902) of (Zipf law and power law fame). We even saw historians like Karl Lamprecht (1915) and J M Draper (1811) talking about mathematical nature of History. This same idea has been widely written by well quoted cyclists like William Strauss and Neil Howe. The overlap of ideas is everywhere. Mathematicians talked about patterns, Scientists talked about proportions and Economists have created statistical curves. There is a thin line between Historians and Cyclists. Historians talked about cyclicality, while cyclists talked about repeating history. Market Technicians talked about fractals and psychologists talked about human irrationality.