Life
Life
Everything That Happens To Your Body When You Are Stressed
Getting stressed is a part and parcel of daily life. Our daily stress can be categorised into two, acute and chronic stress. Acute stress is the short-term stress you get when a dog chases you or someone confronts you. This is essentially triggering of our body’s fight and flight response. In a way, this can […]
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Learning
Life
How to learn anything faster using the Feynman Technique
Richard Feynman, one of the most famous physicists and a fast learner, employed a peculiar and very effective method for learning. In his biography, the author James Gleick mentions this learning technique, which is now known as the Feynman Technique. “He opened a fresh notebook. On the title page, he wrote: NOTEBOOK OF THINGS I […]
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Life
How to move past mistakes
Mistakes are so powerful. They can lead to destructive events of high magnitude such as a nuclear meltdown or to future altering inventions like penicillin. They are an essential part of our lives too, always with us waiting to happen. It can be scary. But a better understanding and a positive attitude towards them will […]
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Life
Solve problems better by asking ‘why’ five times
Taiichi Ohno was a Japanese industrial engineer who is considered to be the father of the famous Toyota Production System that revolutionized manufacturing across the globe. The Toyota system, which is known as Lean Manufacturing in the west, was the brainchild of Ohno which drove Toyota to a major industrial powerhouse from the ashes of […]
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Life
Build Stronger Relationships Using the 5:1 Magic Formula
Maintaining a healthy relationship is always challenging. Throughout our childhood and teenage, we were taught from everything to the position of electrons in elements to black holes and quasars, but never given proper training in building healthy relationships. As a result, we keep wondering if there is a magic formula to fix our relationships. Good […]
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Life
How to think like Elon Musk using first principle thinking?
For decades the Saturn V rockets, NASA’s pride and part of the Apollo missions, led the list of world’s super heavy-lift launch vehicles (SHLLV). But on 6 February, from the same launch pad where NASA launched rockets that carried astronauts to the moon, rose a new heir to that throne – Space X’s Falcon Heavy […]
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Life
Follow Robert Cialdini’s 6 principles to influence anyone
The ability to persuade and convince others to make a decision or to follow your direction is an essential skill for becoming a successful leader. For many centuries, we lived in societies and workplaces dominated by a hierarchical distribution of power, resulting in the more powerful person holding more influence. However, in the modern society, […]
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