Children struggle in schools… because the way they are being taught is incompatible with the way they learn — We often forget people are primarily designed for action, not for listening to lectures, not for manipulating symbols, and not for memorizing facts. Perhaps that’s the reason we still continue to deploy these three methods while imparting most of our primary and higher education. In fact, educators have known this…

Than aspiring things that are bright — A Poem — There is more to life than aspiring things that are bright Your perception is skewed by the limitations of your own sight Don’t get obsessed with your vision of those things that seems bright Achievement of success is just a mere illusion of hollow might Accumulating things that you don’t…

No one wants advice — only corroboration — (maybe/maybe not) — Today everyone has an opinion and advice — sometimes as strong as tartar sitting on our molars. Frankly speaking, isn’t that always been the case. Maybe the only difference is that right now everyone’s opinion and advice are right up in your face. Sometimes, obnoxiously so. In fact, you don’t…

The inevitable conditioning of modern lifestyle makes sure that we are not even aware of something as omnipresent as the humming of an air conditioner — background noise of low intensity — until it stops. We have somehow learned to live with a certain level of constant discontent, unease…

When we are at home or at some social gathering, we never forget to treat people with due respect and consideration. We value them for who they are; people with unique responsibilities and challenges. We treat them with respect because we care about them. But as soon as we enter…

As an eight-year-old, birthday is perhaps the only occasion when your faith in cosmic ability to hand you your most cherished gift is tested to its limit. It was my eighth birthday celebration, and I was busy pinning all my hopes on receiving my brand-new cricket bat as a birthday…

First, you need to decode the data compression trick of your brain — THE STORAGE SPACE inside our brain is limited by the size of our skull. Approximately eighty billion brain cells compressed inside our skull are the only space to store everything that we see, smell, read, hear, think, taste, feel, and experience during our lifetime. As an evolutionary way to manage…

Enjoy the joyful moments in your life — The most important commodity in the current knowledge economy is no longer money or other physical resources. Rather, it is an individual’s time and attention.¹ Due to limited time, attention has become a limited resource. …

Being authentic doesn’t solve all your problems — THE FOLK concept of true selves is way too implicit in our everyday talk about “who you really are,” “being yourself,” and “finding yourself.” These phrases imply the existence of a fundamental layer of a person’s identity that defines them as unique individuals. In fact, we’re often bombarded with this…