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Category:

Mentoring
Published:

08 May 2021

Why do we study? On average a well educated individual has anywhere between 14 to 22 years of formal education under their belt. Why do we spend so much time studying? And what if everythi...

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Accidental Enterprenuership

Category:

Mentoring
Published:

19 Feb 2019

I think of myself as an Accidental Entrepreneur. Never in my career before had I thought that I would not be working in a secure environment that would ensure a steady salary at the end of the month. ...

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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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Building a Personal Brand

Category:

Mentoring
Published:

29 Aug 2018

In some cultures, building a personal brand is considered an anathema. Something that is really frowned upon. But the Generation Z does not really think that ways. A recent survey highlighted that I...

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Scientific Approach to Application Preparation

Category:

Admission Application
Published:

06 Mar 2019

American psychologist and psychometrician, Robert J Sternberg's came up with the triarchic theory of intelligence suggesting that there are three kinds of intelligence: Componential intelligenc...

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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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Peer Pressure in the context of Education Options

Category:

Mentoring
Published:

25 Jan 2018

“I want to join XYZ classes, BECAUSE my friends also go there” Man is a social animal. Therefore, he is always trying to belong. Countries, states, villages, homes – any social unit-...

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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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