What is my learning potential?
Change the design thinking
What we take for granted is has lot of hidden facts.
We pride ourselves to be great thinkers without realising the biases that are deeply synched in our psyche.
Designing, improving or problem solving our thinking needs to change.
Enjoy this great look into ourselves.
When solving problems, people tend to think about adding something before they think of taking something away, even when subtracting is the better solution.
— Nature (@nature) April 11, 2021
Read the paper: https://t.co/DC8YYq5mXW pic.twitter.com/iHkM5OZ39O
Making things simple is creative
Simple is creative.
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creative.
Charles Mingus
Using sustainable technology to simplify life may be the best possible usage of technical advancement specially when it benefits larger population on our planet.
Such a thinking and usage are badly needed in current situation when indiscriminate use of technology threatens our very survival.
Here is an example that shows the way to use technology to make things simple as simple is creative.
How to be proactive? Developing the habit
‘Be proactive’ is the first habit of effectiveness as rightly laid out in the famous book ‘Seven habits of highly effective people’ by Stephen R. Covey.
The following text presents a step by step guide to develop the habit of “Being Proactive”.
Continue reading “How to be proactive? Developing the habit”Avoid Errors – Poka Yoke
Mistake proofing recognizes that every human will make mistakes and tries to set up systems that minimize or eliminate those mistakes. Poka Yoke is a Japanese term for mistake proofing. It is a term to avoid errors. This technique, initially advocated by Shigeo Shingo, has validity both in manufacturing and service.
Continue reading “Avoid Errors – Poka Yoke”Know how your brain helps you make decisions
Ever wonder what process does your brain follow when there is a decision to be made – good or bad? Yale researchers have found that three distinct circuits connecting to different brain regions are involved in making decisions.
Continue reading “Know how your brain helps you make decisions”Time to wake up
Nature and cardiovascular diseases associations
Continue reading “Time to wake up”While developing residential, commercial and industrial spaces; we tend to forget the basics. It is a time to wake up.
Developing health infrastructure to take care of health problems due to elevation from nature is a corrective response and comes with a huge cost. Upsurge in health expenditure, whether we look at it individually or nationally, is a pointer to the mistakes that we continue to do.
While developing green spaces as a part of our development ethos, is a preventive step that is simple, common sensical and cost effective.
It is time to wake up.
Character – An inspiring anecdote
Rajarshi Purushottam Das Tandon was at the time a Member of Parliament.
Once, when he went to collect his salary cheque in the Parliament Office, he asked the clerk there to transfer the amount directly to a “Public Service Fund”. The officials over there were pleasantly surprised by his generosity. One of his colleagues standing nearby said: “There are hardly four hundred rupees as your allowance for the whole month. And you are donating the entire amount for social service?” Tandon ji humbly replied – “You see, I have seven sons and all are earning sufficiently to raise their families; each one sends me one hundred rupees per month. I spend only about rupees three to four hundred from that and the rest goes to some philanthropic causes. This allowance as a Member-of-Parliament is again extra for some one like me. Why should I save it for myself or my family? Such was the character of our leaders.
It was because of this natural austerity and detachment from selfish possessions that he was called a “Rajarshi”.
Continue reading “Character – An inspiring anecdote”Happy New Year 2019
Inside or, outside?
While buying my first new car me and my wife got into an argument over two choices that we finalised.
One car had good interiors & good performance but was not as good looking from outside.
The other car looked great from outside but was not spacious from inside & did not have comfortable interiors.
Continue reading “Happy New Year 2019”nature is beautiful?
Structured Learning
