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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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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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How Mentoring Helped Me Achieve My Objective?

Category:

Mentoring
Published:

06 Mar 2019

Credits to Shivangi Walia for this Blog. ‘A mentor empowers a person to see a possible future and believe it can be obtained.’ - Shawn Hitchcock It’s easier said than done, t...

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Study for Jobs of the Future

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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Jobs of the Future

Category:

Mentoring
Published:

08 Mar 2017

This is especially relevant to the readers of this blog as it directly affects their future. Decisions taken today in terms ofcourses taken and paths followed, will determine the careers that one sho...

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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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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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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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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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