Going for Interviews? Read these Important Things

Hello Readers,

Group discussion is one of the most important part of the selection procedures, followed by top companies for job applicants as well as top colleges for taking admission. It is important because it gives information about ones overall personality, team work and attitude.

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Therefore, it is very important that the applicants keep certain things in mind and adopt them while being a part of group discussion. These things are carefully seen and noted by the moderator. 

In a group discussion, while you go in as an individual don't act as an individual, act like how you would act in your group of friends. In a group of friends there are arguments, facts being stated, a stance being taken; the same has to be done in a group discussion as well. But, also keep in mind that there is certain level of dignity being maintained, don't turn the G.D. into a fish market. 

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While sitting on the chair, be comfortably seated, don't sit in a posture you are not comfortable with. Some people tend to sit with a very straight-stiff back, avoid that if you are uncomfortable. You may sit the way you like, as long as the people sitting next to you are not affected by it.

While you are stating a point in the G.D. always look at the person who is weak ,that is the person who has not spoken much and your words should be directed towards the strongest person, that is the person who is speaking a lot of valid points. What this does is, if the weaker person starts speaking because of this, you get extra marks, also if you keep eyes on the strongest person then the moderator will always know who is stating the best points and thus the strongest person will benefit. Please don't state invalid points, neither state repetitive points, you can re-frame your points.

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There are certain dos and don'ts that I would like to mention, if you are allowed then do carry a pen and paper to jot down yours as well as other's points as they would be very essential when you are required to give a summary at the end of the G.D. ; avoid carrying a very fancy pen, carry a simple pen; while presenting a point don't wave hands way to high that they obstruct other people in the group; your attire should be a formal one; shoes should be polished and also don't try to intervene when someone is stating a valid and non repetitive but do intervene when someone is stating an invalid point.

If I am to define an ideal person for G.D. he will be Lord Ganesha. One should try to behave like him in a Group Discussion. Ganesha has long ears which signifies a will to listen patiently and attentively to other people around. He has big eyes which signifies a will to keep an eye on everyone present in the group discussion. He has a stomach which signifies a will to absorb in all the knowledge and arguments shared by other people. 

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Finally, if you are stuck and don't have any idea about the topic that has been given for the group discussion then think about the topic from these angles, the social angle, the political angle, the technological angle, the legal angle and the economic angle. You would certainly find some good points about the topic when you start to analyse the topic keeping these angles in mind.

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Psychology Update: The Lollapalooza Effect

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Written by : Radhika Bhattacharyya

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In common parlance,  Lollapalooza means extraordinary.

However the term, "Lollapalooza effect", coined by Charlie Munger throws light on the psychological phenomena, in which multiple human biases or tendencies synchronize and go hand in hand in creating a larger than life effect . Charlie Munger is an American investor and business man, more famously known for his involvement with Mr. Warren Buffet, as his business partner.

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Imagine a beautiful girl by the name of Sheetal, who is also humble, compassionate, and ethical. Her virtues, in addition to her beauty, all add up in making her irresistible. (Lollapalooza effect).

In a typical real life situation, imagine an inactive student named Ravi, in the Physical Training (P. T.) class. Not only is he lazy,  but he also dislikes his fastidious P. T. teacher, who in a bid to make the lazy student more active, makes him run 10 rounds of the field. Say on his 3rd round of the field, Ravi faints in the heat and his class mates end up mocking him. Embarrassed, Ravi vows to miss all his P. T. sessions. Here we see, multiple human biases acting in the same direction and at the same time, in making Ravi want to miss further P. T. sessions.

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The 'Lollapalooza effect' was coined by Munger in his 1995 Harvard speech, in which he reviewed serious instances of human misjudgment.

The 2008 sub-prime crisis is another example of the Lollapalooza effect, on a massive scale. Bankers decided to give prime loans to sub-prime lenders(high rated borrowers) at low interest rates in order to sell off more housing loans with a view to increase their business volumes. The sub-prime lenders started selling off home loans(sub-prime loans) to sub-prime borrowers (unrated borrowers) at higher interest rates, with a view of selling higher volumes of business and receiving higher commissions, without checking into the financial capability of the borrowers. And ultimately the sub-prime borrowers gained the maximum, in being able to fulfill their dreams of buying a home, without giving a thought as to their capacity of repayment of the loan. In a series of chain reactions, what occurred next, as we all know, was the sub-prime crisis. 

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Here the mechanism of 'herd-mentality' and the different human tendencies and biases acting together in a synchronized manner, created the massive mortgage crisis leading to the eventual breakdown of the US economy, resulting in large-scale unemployment and recession.

Not a single player thought about the long term consequences(large dose of human misjudgment) leading to an overwhelming mortgage crisis.

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Mission white bear

White bear, is a term used to describe a problem in which the person deliberately tries to forget and repress certain kind of thoughts but instead results in those thoughts appearing in the mind more and more. The efforts put in suppressing the thoughts all go in vein as the thoughts occupy more prominent place in the mind.

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The reason why this problem is termed as white bear is; in the initial days of the discovery of the problem, it was a very difficult task to not think of white bear when asked to not think about it.

For example, when I say to you to not think about a pink elephant; okay please don't think about a pink elephant. Does your mind listens to you? or does it start to think about a pink elephant even after saying that it shouldn't. This problem is also termed as ironic process theory.

This problem is widely used by psychologists in the treatment of Anxiety and Depression. How? Think of it this way that, when a person is under stress and is distressed then he would keep thinking and trying to suppress his anxiety and depression but, he would actually be increasing it many times by doing this, it may even result in the person doing things completely out of his character and what is expected out of him.

This problem can also be related to memorization, and the level of control a person has on his mental power and abilities. If someone can intentionally control his thought process and make his mind think and work according to his desires and not against it, then the person has a control over the white bear syndrome.

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Here are some ways to overcome white bear, these have been tried and test in various experiments by psychologists.
Try focus on other things; in order to distract the mind from things that are not to be thought of, the person can start to think of other things. Example- Instead of thinking of white bear start thinking of a pink lion.
Meditation; this is a very effective way to have a control over your body and mind. During the work of the whole day, we tend to not breathe properly in the way required by the body; simple deep breathing can bring in a lot change as well.
Relaxation; by simply relaxing and letting the body come out of stress and depression is another way to overcome the white bear.

I hope you good relate to the post.

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What is Exactly Going Wrong?

Hello readers, I recently came across a news from the Noida City of Uttar Pradesh state of India; where a boy precisely a teenager of the age 16 years killed his mother and sister with the help of pizza cutter, scissor and a bat. 

This news made be really think what is this happening, a boy who probably should have been more concerned with his school examinations has killed the closest people in his life , I was even more shocked when I came to know the reason for his act. He did all this because his mother stopped him from watching television and asked him to study.

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Now, seeing this news being featured in the newspapers and news channels, many mothers and sisters would feel very insecure when addressing or scolding their sons or brothers. While, on the other hand what this does to the psychology of another male teenager is, killing your mother or sister is the way out of homework and studying and scoldings of the parents, I might be sounding really very harsh but, this has happened in the past as well. When the teenagers see another teenager come out a similar situation that they also are dealing with, they find the solution easy to adopt and relate with.

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I think the media houses need to be very careful, when such a news is thrown up on the television screens. The media houses should either consider not showing up such news or showing up at night time when the teenagers are asleep. The news that teenagers see on the screen or read in the newspapers tend to have a very deep impact on their minds, they actually relate to the news as their own.
The news can even cause can epidemic where multiple such incidents start to happen. And this has happened in the past as well. I am quoting here an incident from the past; in the 1960's there was a teenage epidemic  in Micronesia, where the suicide rates among the teenagers took a sharp rise. The teenagers were following each other for committing suicide and even though their reasons for the suicide were very lame, they committed suicide because as they heard about other teenagers doing it as an easy way to get out of their problems.

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Apart from this, parents should give special attention to the behavior of the children, the kind of movies they watch, the kind of online games they play or the kind of things they talk about. If the parents see some adverse changes in their children, consultation with a psychologist needs to be done.
There should always be a free flow of information between the teenagers and the adults specially their parents.
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Psychology Update - The Munchausen Syndrome

The Munchausen syndrome is kind of a mental disorder in which the person who is perfectly alright tries to show or depict that he is not well, and is feeling sick and needs attention. The reason why the person behaves this way is because he is suffering from depression or anxiety or emotional difficulties or lack of motivation or abuse in the past

So, the person who is suffering from this syndrome is basically trying to fake an illness; The identification of this syndrome can be difficult as the person is faking, being dishonest and is trying to make us believe that he needs diagnosis and attention, and rightly so, we as humans have the tendency to show sympathy towards a person's suffering. 

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When the doctor gets to notice that a person is suffering from such a disorder, he will initiate treatment by the talking therapy. The doctor during the treatment tries to bring in a change in the behavior and thought process of the person.

When we find any person in our relation, suffering from this disorder, we should try to encourage them to fight it out, we should allow them to talk to us, we should make them more comfortable, we should try to get them rid of depression and anxiety issues. We should never abandon or ostracize the people who are suffering from this disorder as they can be cured only by love, care and motivation to lead a better life.

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Why Saying and Being Positive is Important

We always hear people around us, asking us to stay positive, wish good and positive things; and be optimistic. Ever gave it a thought why is that so? Or consider this, there will be certain kind of people around you who will say negative, demotivating and pessimistic things to us. Ever gave it a thought why is that so?

Okay, lets roll in. Our mind is very strong yet tinder element of our body. Strong because it actually controls every other element in the body. Tinder because it can easily be contaminated with undesirable thoughts which can be devastating. So, when someone else feeds his/her thoughts in your mind, it can either be catastrophic or fruitful. Why just some one else, when you yourself feed messages to your mind it can work the same way. 

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Getting a little deeper, there is something called as a conscious mind and other thing called as the subconscious mind. Yes, I have been influenced by Dr. Joseph Murphy's novel " The power of your subconscious mind". I will present before you some more light on this subject and let us see how psychology influences us.

So, yes, Conscious mind helps us to do every activity that we want to do, like a shake of our hands, legs or speaking or reading. On the other hand subconscious mind is the one which controls activities like our heart beats or blood pumping by heart or eye balls shrinking or enlarging according to light.

The subconscious mind is the one which gets affected by the thoughts that are poured on it by either our own self or some other people. When the thoughts that enter the subconscious mind are good and positive then, our the subconscious mind works along with the conscious mind to get those positive thoughts to be accomplished. Similarly if, the thought entering the subconscious mind are negative and demotivating the conscious mind will get you more closer to your negative thoughts and situation.

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So, what to do? Always stay aware of people who try to influence your subconscious mind by their negative thoughts, try nullifying their thoughts and activities by, yourself giving positive thoughts to self. When you yourself start to feel down and pessimistic thoughts try to invade your subconscious mind, then give yourself a dozen of positive messages and thoughts by speaking to your own self and telling yourself that everything is good and give yourself the confidence, that is required to tackle the situation.

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In psychological terms, when you yourself give good, positive thoughts to your subconscious mind and try to lift yourself up, it is termed as Auto Suggestion. When it is done by other person to your subconscious mind then it is called Hetero Suggestion.

I hope you could related to me. Share your views in the comments.

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The Sector To Look Forward To, For Fighting Against Unemployment

Unemployment is one of the many reasons that causes intense depression which at times can be fatal too. So, why shall we not discuss about such an important cause of depression. There are about 350 million people in the whole world that suffer from serious levels of depression, lets fight out one of the cause of depression, the unemployment.

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The post might look like a little off the topic of the general posts that are up for a read and understanding. But, yeah there was a need for this, so here we are. Here is a post which discusses about the things we as humans need to put our most concerns on, though the technology has been growing but there are a lot of downside of it too. The post talks about the entrepreneurship, employments and most importantly the basic necessity of human beings, the agriculture. Hope the messages gets delivered to you appropriately. So, here you go.

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We as humans have really performed very outrageously on various upfronts. The technological advancements have been a real treat to all the comforts of the human beings; and with a vision of setting up a human colony at Mars in the near future, we are creating a platform where only half of the Darwin’s principle is followed; the better and more adaptive organisms stays for long but the lesser adaptive don’t get eliminated; they both stay. This would lead to something severe where there might be enough phones to satisfy everyone but not enough food to keep them sustained. Thus, the sector that needs to be taken on gracefully is, the Agriculture.

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Agriculture would be attracting a great deal of entrepreneurs as it influences almost our entire homosapien species but over the years, there has been a tragic decline in the number of people who are directly linked with agriculture. Statistically, according to a data provided by the World bank  there has been a significant downfall in the number of people employed in the agriculture sector, from a satisfying forty percent to a concerning twenty seven percent over a period of seventy years; this means only 2 billion of the population is trying to feed the 7.5 billion population. Thus, there is a need to get our entrepreneur brains working in the direction towards making the agricultural practises more and more efficient. Investors and shareholders would definitely be looking for entrepreneurs who would like to create an impact in this sector. 

Agriculture in itself is a very diverse field and needs careful investment of time, money, technology and efforts at different levels. Though, it might seem like investing in agriculture is more of a non profitable business but stress has to be made on the fact that it has a market size of worth 4.8 trillion. Entrepreneurship in agriculture sector doesn’t mean dressing up traditionally and devoting yourself completely to mother earth; clean and tidy suits can do the trick as well, just like any other sector, the path involved is the same yet demands high efficiency.

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There would be a huge shortage of land required to produce enough to nourish the population of the world, thus there is a requirement of innovative methods to enhance the productivity. The vertical garden which is getting popular in urban areas is an example that should be enough to impart the amount of innovation required in this sector. Though, it might sound scary and risky and budding entrepreneur might think of it as a very foolish idea to start of their business from this sector; but, they should be aware of the great opportunities in this sector which are untapped and demand attention. Their slight courage now can turn out to be very productive in the long run, specially for the young entrepreneurs, with speedy brains and enthusiasm to change the world with their ideas.

The important sub sectors of agriculture are the tools and equipments, fertilizers, surveillance and analysis and research and development. There are numerous problems or opportunities for entrepreneurs in each of these sectors which require cutting edge technology to lift them enough to meet the never ending demands of the population. The twenty seven percent of the population which is engaged in agriculture looks toward the entrepreneurs with a hope that they can bring in the change which would either stop their decline or uplift their present situations. 

Influential entrepreneurship is the need of hour in the agricultural sectors. Most of the people engaged in agriculture, do not wish their children to be in this sectors; they want their children to get good high profile jobs. This perception has to be changed by the entrepreneurs. Agricultural sector should be made one of the most sought after sectors for jobs and that can be done by passionate entrepreneurs who enter this sector with an aim to make a change. 

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The agricultural sector offers enough problems, for entrepreneurs to solve and experiment with and thus helps in the development of the entrepreneurs. The problems involved in this sector are such that most of the entrepreneurs can easily relate to as they have been affected by them sometimes in their lives. Considering the example of high prices of food items; the end users are charged heavily for the food they buy but does that money really reach the person who bakes himself in the sun, if it did, there wouldn’t have been a collapse in this sector. This is an opportunity for the entrepreneurs, their energetic minds can work towards a way where profits are equally divided in the process and each member of the process holds importance equivalent to his inputs. There is a need for a change in this sector and who other than entrepreneurs can bring in the change. They are the reasons why people have started equating change to entrepreneurship.

You yeah, Agriculture might look old fashioned but it is the basic necessity and thus is the concern regarding careful investment and securitization in this sector. And it would certainly break the shackles of  unemployment by bringing Agriculture to rescue. 

A Smile Can Always Help

Do you know, the outer world which you think is responsible for your activities, perception, behavior is not the only factor which plays an important part, it is also your inner world too. Indeed, the inner world can have a more substantial effect on you than the outer world. We often say that the whole world resides inside us, it is actually two hundred percent correct to say that. 

Focusing directly on real life examples, how often do you find yourself doing things easily and in a good mood when you are happy? Well, that is a foolish question to ask. We generally tend to be doing our activities happily when we are happy. 

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So, what if we try acting happy even in tough situations? Like how about stretching up your jaw muscles a little whenever you feel a little tense? How about faking a smile at times when you are about to break, smiling is always better than tears you see. Smiling pushes your brain to feel yeah all is well, we can manage things and nothing is out of control. In tough situations, our brain feels restricted, constrained and sink because we ourselves are trying to be a little sick, okay though we can't blame ourselves for that, tough times are difficult to handle. But how about making yourself believe that things are good and manageable even though you might not think so, but just faking it for the sake of it for some moment. A simple way for doing it is SMILING. 

I am trying to relate here an important principle named BioFeedback. It is somewhat a complex thing if you try to google can figure things out. But, I can give you a sense of it here.

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Okay, so there was an experiment conducted among two groups of people. Both were shown a comical short movie. But, one group was forced to keep smiling during the movie while the other group was allowed to sit in any posture. Just in case you are thinking how can one be made to smile forcefully, a small pencil was kept inside their mouth, jaw to jaw, to keep the mouth in the posture of a smile.

So, what happened was, the group which were made to smile throughout forcefully actually found the movie to be very comical, while the other group would the movie just okay.

So, what you think. Whatever you might think, for or against of what I have stated, it is definitely worth a try. Next time, when you find yourself surrounded with problems and things might seem going out of hands. Forcefully try to smile. Try it once, in any case a smile would be better than the drops of tears. 

" Smile at your problems and the problems will smile too "

Keep smiling. Keep loving.

Love Always Possesses Some Magical Powers

Something related to love, I hope you like it;

Before she came into his life

His love was only his fast and furious bike

Before she came into his life

Speed and thrill were only his delight

Met her in the lane 

Where she was walking in the pain

And he was glazing at his fame

Asked her, if he could help 

And take her along

She rattled with fear, ran long way back

Little did he know, about her fear 

Little did she know, about his love

Time passed and clock ticked

Then, he came to know 

The fear wasn’t him, but his bike

Unfortunate accident made her fear the bike

Little did he know, that she had lost her love

In one of the fast and furious bike

Little did she know, she was getting again

Not accident but the love of her life

Gave up on his love for bike

He started loving her for all his life

Little did he know, that

Love can also be fast and furious

Little did she know, that

Love can also be so precious

Drive the vehicle safe, to keep driving through the unlimited love in life. Cheers to our loved ones who always support us, whether its day or night and always pray for us whether we are far or frost.

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Can Someone Distort Your Reality And you would still Hug him?

" Reality Distortion Field "

Okay, so by mere looking at the words in the quotes above, one might think it is something that makes a negative sense, like someone is trying to distort you, deviate you from your reality and make you do things that they want to do. Doesn't it.

Well, this term Reality Distortion Field was basically used in the premises of the company that has the largest amount of hard cash, the Apple. And to be specific it was used for Steve Jobs, the very founder of the Apple.

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Now, does the term in quotes display a positive sense?

Now here is the explanation, Steve Jobs always had a great vision and wanted to deliver the best technologically driven products. He always asked his team to go beyond the limits. Very often, when the team thought of something as a highly impossible task to complete, Steve imparted them with words and a vision, that it is not impossible and can be achieved. In this way, he was able to shatter the film of reality seen by his team mates and employees, and make them see and persuade something beyond their thought capabilities, and ideally what he wanted out of them.

Isn't that cool? Now you know, why apply is or was so successful. 

Giving a more insight of the story, once Steve Jobs asked his technical team to fix the issue of the time consumed by the system during booting; he wanted the speed to be reduced by 10 seconds. This task seemed humongous and nearly impossible to them. But, Steve had different plans to get his goals achieved. He asked them, can they reduce the speed because someone's life is dependent on it? He explained that, averagely a person boots around 3-4 times thus, if time of booting is reduced it would save 30-40 secs daily which is about 4-5 hours yearly. 

Suddenly, the technical team had a different vision all together, finally around their handwork, they were able to achieve the target; they reduced the speed not only by 10 seconds but by 20 seconds. 

Okay, so how to apply this psychology into your life, firstly it would be great if you can surround people who have such potentials of distorting you from your realities, also if there is no one around you with such a personality, then it is you, yes you are the one with the qualities similar to that of Steve Jobs.
Cheers.

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You too? Yes, #metoo

#metoo has been in the buzz. Be it the micro-blogging site Twitter or friendly networking site Facebook.

Talking about its origin, prominent public figure, Alyssa Milano, posted on twitter, urging all women who have been assaulted or harassed in the past, to write #metoo on Twitter. So, within ours an epidemic was seen, many women started using their Twitter handle to post #metoo and slowly it spread to Facebook as well.

Most importantly what was the need of it? Don't most of us know how much women have be exploited? 

Well, I think there was a need, women are supposed to speak up on such issues, which they might have been facing and turning away from them so that there is no damage done to their social image or to their family's social image. 

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Women need to speak it out and not be ashamed of it, as it was never their fault in whatever they have faced. They need to open up and tell the world that whatever is happening is not good and is not acceptable by them, turning a blind eye to such instances increase the defaulters courage to repeat such offence in future as well. There needs to be an end to all this, and I think this is the start of the end of all that women have been suffering.

Many women who used #metoo on the networking sites also described how they had been harassed, what this did was, it helped many other women to know that whatever they are considering and ignoring as a usual thing is not so, and is actually a form of harassment. Many defaulters have come to know that what they have been doing saying just for fun, isn't very cool and they should feel ashamed and guilty of whatever they have done.

Using the social media platform, it becomes easier for the women to commute their suffering and also their reach increases to such levels that the defaulters would be humiliated by what they have done.

So, will this epidemic of speaking out about your harassment continue and go to next level or will it end just in the form of hastags?

Well, let us see #whatisnext.

Climbing Inspirations With The One Who Climbed The Everest

Hello readers,

I would love to share with you, the story of a courageous and daredevil girl, MALAVATH POORNA, belonging to a tribal village in Telangana, India. 

If you ever wondered, that can the uncivilized rustic people do something great. I would suggest you to read this story with more interest as your imaginations would completely be redefined. And would make you look at the primitive people with signs of great hope.

In the childhood days, when you and me used to play with toys, Malavath Poorna, at the age of just 13 has become the youngest female climber in the world to climb the MOUNT EVEREST. It wasn’t easy for her to emerge from a family of agricultural laborers and become the youngest mountaineer to climb the highest peak in the world.

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Malavath comes from a very poor family. Being a farmer in India, one can imagine how much would her family be earning monthly. Just Indian Rupee 3,000, that’s probably your pocket money. She was handpicked by the ANDHRA PRADESH SOCIAL WELFARE RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL which took up the challenge to send tribal kids on this expedition. She was trained for 8 months and prepared to survive in temperatures below zero degree celsius. Many of us have heaters and geezers working when the mercury reads 20 degrees, imagine her condition, she was training in weathers well below zero degrees.

Her willpower to prove that a tribal girl can do something kept her going on the tough journey of the Everest. Indian prime minister, NARENDRA MODI also congratulated her and encouraged her to do well in life and make the nation proud of her.

I hope Malavath, the little girl from Telangana, brought some sparks of inspiration in all of you. I would be back with yet another inspiring story, till then stay inspired and keep smiling.

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Psychology can help find love

Love, aaahhhhhhhh

One of the most hotshot topics in the world and one of my favorite topics to have a talk upon.

So, most of us find ourselves fall in love someway or the other, by love here I mean the girlfriend boyfriend kind of love, the kind of love where initially one gets attracted to the other person and gradually wants to spend their entire life together.

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I am going to show here how you can link love, attraction to psychology and help find yourself at the right spot. There is a handsome link between psychology and the world in which we experience things. 

Let me first explain things with an example which one can more relate to in day to day life. Why is that a person into gambling business gets so so addicted to it and finds it so hard to get out it even though he seldom wants to play more.

Getting more into the roots of psychology; if we receive two things, one at a regular interval and other at irregular intervals than, we tend to expect the thing to come just next moment when it is coming irregularly, but he tend to ignore the thing which didn't show up this time though it was coming in regular intervals. Getting a grasp of something? 

Let me get back to gambling, in this business, the person who starts with gambling is allowed to win initially at irregular intervals, but then he is not made to win for a long time but still the person hopes that the next time he is going to win. And thus he becomes addicted. 

This is how important regular and irregular things are.

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Now trying to associate the psychological principles with love. When we get attracted to someone we usually look for signs if they love us too. Now at this very moment we notice the other person smile at us. Gosssshhhhh. Life is set.

But here is the trick. We can get confused if the person really likes us or not. If the person passes the smile at regular intervals, we would expect them to smile regularly in future too, but if they don't we can think that they might not be interested in us.
But, if the person is passing the smile at irregular intervals, we tend to expect that they would pass the smile just the next time, and we keep waiting endlessly even though the person is disinterested in us.
Very cool, isn't it?

So, next time someone smiles at you, do keep a check on the psychological principles.

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Small Steps Creating large Imprints

Hello Beautiful Readers,

Here is a very interesting story about a youth sensation.

The name of the boy is Bilal Ahmad Dar. He has recently been in the news and when you know the reason you certainly would applaud his work.

Bilal comes from a very poor family in Jammu and Kashmir, India. Presently aged 17, he lost his father when he was 12 years old, due to a water borne disease. Bilal's father used to work close to the lake Wular and due to the water in the river being polluted so very badly by industries and pesticides, he got infected by one of the water borne diseases.

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Bilal's father was the only person earning in the family. The incident had a very positive effect on Bilal. He was now on a mission to clean the Wular lake. He wanted to clean the whole lake, though it sounded like climbing Mount Everest then, 4 years from that day he is a hero.

Just to give an idea of how beautiful Jammue and Kashmir is or used to be. Here is a picture of the Neelum Valley.

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At the age of 13, Bilal borrowed money from neighbors and he bought a boat. With the help of the boat he manually started cleaning the lake. He didn't want any other person to get infected by the pollution in the river. Bilal collected all the garbage that was dumped in the rivers, he sold all the reusable garbage and thus was able to compensate for his family's financial needs.

Bilal has been very successful in his mission.

He has come into limelight when he was made the Sawachta Ambassador (Cleanliness Ambassador) for the region. He has been doing campaigns for making people aware about cleaning theie environment. He also earns a monthly salary for the work that he is doing now. Bilal's efforts have also been appreciated by the honorable prime minister of India, Mr. Narendra Modi

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Kudos to such people who try to bring in the change.

It's time we start inspiring others. Keep your environment clean, spread love and happiness.

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Real success is achieved when you make people around you succeed

Hello Readers,

I want to use this platform to appreciate the hard work of an individual who will always be one of the person all teachers and mentors would look up to.

I really hope that you might have heard about him in the amazing years you have spent on the planet Earth. If you haven't heard of him, I promise you won't forget his name when I explain why he is so amazing.

Okay, firstly stating the facts, in India the most prestigious, prominent, most competitive and highly sort after examination, is for getting admissions into an IIT (India Institute of Technology) for pursing engineering. Being such a vital examination for so many students, there are numerous coaching and training institute that prepare students for this examination and also charge pretty heavily.

The main character to be taken into note in this whole situation stated above is Mr. Anand Kumar. He is doing something very extra ordinary. He is doing exact opposite for the situation stated above.

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Anand Kumar is teaching economically poor yet intelligent students for getting admission into the prestigious IITs. Now the main part is he does all that for free, no charges from the students.

Anand Kumar selects 30 students every year and trains them. His organization thus is named the Super 30. He takes care of all their basic necessities all my himself, keeps them in his house. Isn't it so so amazing?

He has been doing this for the last 15 years and the results have been overwhelming, most of the 30 students land into the IITs. His family really supports his initiative and helps him in every way.

If you are thinking to donate funds to keep his organization sustained, I really appreciate your thoughts but the matter of fact is, he doesn't even accept donations of any kind. Is he even human?

He has also been invited in some top level universities like the MIT and the Harvard for giving lectures to students and spread his thoughts.

Such brilliant minded and society driven individuals are very rare to find and serve as an inspiration to all of us. Do share your views in the comments.

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Are smaller achievements by center being over hyped while bigger achievements by state not so amplified

Hello readers,

If you would be following the news channels in the recent times, you would have come across the multi multi billionaire project being launched in the south western part of India.

Yes, its the project involving the full development of bullet trains from Ahmedabad in Gujarat to Mumbai in Maharashtra.

It would be costing India some thing over 1 lakh crore Indian rupee, 83 percent of which would be funded by Japan at an interest rate of 0.1 percent and payable in 50 years. The project would be completed with technical assistance from Japan.

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So, does India really need a super fast rail transportation system? That too at a time where the current rail transportation is seeing a misshaping every few days ? That too at a time where India is still struggling to uplift the people living below the poverty line? That too just to sever the upper middle class citizens because only they can afford the cost of travel? I guess the answer is a no. 

The center government is clearly trying to work upon the upper floors without much caring about the base of the building. Would such a system last long?

It's good that the center is trying to make emphasis on making the nation technological more sound. But would that do any good? It would just make the rich people more richer and the poor people more poorer. No doubt that technology is important but is of no good if basic fundamental requirements of citizens are not fulfilled.

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The central government might be receiving great applause because of the multi billion project it is going to take off. The media and news channels get enough spicy elements from this to display to the people. 

But the media finds nothing so important of what is being done by the state government by a different political part. 

A state government is building well maintained low cost clinics for the people in the state, which would provide people with almost free medical services.

Isn't this an act of strengthening the base of the building instead of the upper floors? But why aren't the media house publicizing it enough? Why it is not being treated at an equal platform as the bullet train project?

Aren't the central government and media houses trying to play with minds of people through psychological tricks of showing themselves doing great and superior endeavors?

I am not a follower of any party or government, the views are personal and not meant to hurt sentiments of any person. Comment to share your views.

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Appreciation Is All It Needs

Hey.

Have you been ever been worried about certain people who are not doing something that you expect them to do? You must have experienced this sometime in your life.

I can definitely give you some concrete psychological reasons as to why this is happening and how to turn the table in your favor.

Okay, so when a certain incident happens you can handle it in two broad ways; one being the positive way and other being the negative way. Yes, yes there is a psychology behind everything.

Take for example, you wish to teach your students in the class a certain set of rules to be maintained in the class.

So, you have taught the rules to the students. 

And then you check regularly how well are they following the rules.

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So, one would punish the student or warn when the rules are not followed. And it is hoped that with the punished thing around the students, the things would change and students would obey the rules in the class.

But, it is not the best way to make the students follow the rules or for the fact anything.

The ideal way is, to appreciate the student when he or she follows the rule. May be all the rules haven't been followed but even if one rule is followed appreciate that with something like a chocolate or claps in front of the class.

This minor change of appreciating good and not cursing for the bad can produce great results. 

This fundamental psychological principle can be applied to various sectors.

Share your views in the comments.

A billionaire company owned by Monk

A ten thousand crores profitable Indian company, the Patanjali. The company is mainly owned in terms of shares and stakes by two people, who are basically monks in layman's language, the two persons live a modest life, no family to look after, wearing bare minimum clothes required to cover the body, inspiring people to do yoga and most importantly making India bend towards Ayurvedic, herbal and traditional products instead of the products sold by foreign companies in India. Sounds all good till here, patriotism at its best and I am no employ of a foreign company who would display irrational views about the company.

I would try to highlight the possible psychology being used behind the growing market of the company.

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Firstly, it is a great thing that the company is doing and their mission seems very cool and patriotic. They clearly want no foreign company to sell their products in India. Patanjali wants only Indian made Indian company's product to be sold in India. But slowly, over the years, they have started overdoing work towards their mission. Because of this, even Indian based companies who are completely settled in India and are selling products to Indians, are finding hard to compete with the Patanjali.

Now, coming to the psychological tricks that Patanjali is using here; they use words like " herbal", " Ayurvedic", " Traditional ", "Pure"," Indian" along with the products they sell. What this does is, it makes people more attracted towards their products by the medium of patriotism. An example to make you understand this thing even better, it is the same way companies use "sexy" models around cars to make a statement that even theirs cars are sexy. 

The other psychological trick used is the concept of familiarity. Being law abiding citizens of the country every person is very familiar with words like traditional, Indian, Ayurvedic and we often cling to things related or associated with them. Patanjali is using this familiarity and people's previous exposures to these words to reach every house in India.

Also, in its advertisements the company urges every citizen  to use its product for the sake of being truthful citizens of the country, which is a great way of advertising as people would love to use and be associated with such a company which talks about and makes them more indulged with their own country.

Also, another psychological trick used is the principle of attraction and first impression. People of a country like being called truthful citizens. And Patanjali created its first impression on the people by calling themselves as a company made in India for the Indian people to serves the country. Thus people get easily impressed to buy their products.

The usage of these words attract a lot of people and also their patriotic feelings. This is a really good way to advertise the company and make themselves an every house product.

Patanjali presently is a big brand even in the smallest of the grocery shops even in the distant parts of the country. They sell everything from food products, to cosmetic products, to consumable water and are planning to sell clothes in near future.

The marketing strategy opted by the company is amazing as they are hitting to that part of our internal system called " patriotism" that no one can say no to. Full marks to the strategy the employ to advertise themselves.

I personally feel, it's a good thing what Patanjali is doing, but their entire motive can be questioned by the fact that their products are expensive and thus available to only upper middle class, and though they are making a profit of ten thousand crores annually, the prices of the products haven't lured down.

Giving a little more insinght of the company; Patanjali sells products made mainly from nature and they wish to provide people purest of the products. Apart from selling products Pantanjali has various health and educational institutions which are helping people live a better life. 

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A 11 year old company is surely giving competitions to top brands, which is good in a way as even other companies would strive to deliver even better products.

Please note these views are personal and may differ from person to person. Do comment to share your opinions. 

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