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The only two languages that a kid needs to learn today are English and AI..

Category:

Mentoring
Published:

01 May 2018

This was a comment from the exasperated parent of a school-going boy. He was already struggling having to learn 2 languages - English and Hindi, and multiple subjects like Language and Literature in b...

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Know How You Learn Before You Learn..

Category:

Mentoring
Published:

06 Mar 2019

In a fast-changing world where new learning is the only constant, I have often wondered if there are some hacks that can help improve the ability to learn. In my research for the same, it mattered tha...

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Study Abroad - Differentiation in the era of COVID19

Category:

Mentoring
Published:

20 Apr 2020

Study Abroad - How can I differentiate myself in the post-COVID 19 era Differentiation is a difficult beast to tame, even in the easiest of times! It is like running on a treadmill - you have t...

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Board Exams and Stream Selection 2021

Category:

Mentoring
Published:

05 Feb 2021

Grade 10 is usually a year of change. The development of students in this year holds a lot of key factors, and the results of this year’s exams may or may not help a tenth grader choose his stre...

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Pygmalion effect in Mentoring/ Admission Counselling

Category:

Mentoring
Published:

31 Jul 2019

The Pygmalion effect is the phenomenon whereby others' expectations of a target person affect the target person's performance. A corollary of the Pygmalion effect is the golem effect, in which low ex...

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Experimental innovator who got into the Parsons, New York

Category:

Mentoring
Published:

08 Mar 2018

This girl was not a genius – she had to work extremely hard to make her creations come alive. She was not a creative genius who would lift a brush and paintings would come out. In fact, for the ...

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Active Forgetting

Category:

Mentoring
Published:

06 Mar 2019

Reading through an article in the Atlantic on active forgetting (How Active Forgetting Makes Memory More Efficient?), it occurred to me that the current age of cheap memory sticks and cameras in every...

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Who is a Good Mentor?

Category:

Mentoring
Published:

26 Feb 2020

This chart from Rory Sutherland’s book, Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life is an eye-opener about the ways of the world. &nbs...

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“Mom, you are starving me.. for time”

Category:

Mentoring
Published:

06 Mar 2019

Sometimes we are willing to compromise on our time for the sake of money. Taking a hard assignment, putting in long hours, sacrificing time with the family or friends all in the hope of a good reward ...

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