The concept of self-knowledge has been prevalent in the old Eastern philosophy as an integral part of higher education.
Expertise in any domain at the highest levels was complete only w...
How to create a college list to study abroad?
Step 1: Gather your scores: ACT, SAT1
Step 2: Get your desired college names together, including college ranking.
Step 3: Get the average sco...
“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-...
While we keep focusing on the earth, there is a race on to leave the planet and reach out in space. And while the previous era of space exploration was led by the Governments (think NASA, RO...
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...
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...
Epitomized by Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000 hours rule, success eventually boils down to ‘persistence.’ If you pull in efforts over a period of time (called...
Most of my ‘successful’ mentees have worked extremely hard to get into colleges or career paths that they are currently at. While I have constantly talked about the value of persistence an...
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...
