During a pandemic-filled Texas hot summer, I habitually listened to podcasts to lift my spirits during those uncertain times. While…
Life lessons from 2 books and a movie
Logic is a short-term process and is sequential and recursive. On the other hand, rationality is a holistic process considering emotions, feelings, intuition, and short and long-term benefits. Logic and rationality can…
Research demands a capacity for creativity and intellectuality. Research is an open-ended endeavor that provides a turf for entertaining novel solutions and ideas. Despite the high uncertainty levels, it brings satisfaction, especially when you find a truthful answer to a research…
Recently I watched the movie Her. I felt a connection with the film because I always find myself thinking about what will future interactions with computers look like. Theodore is an inhibited, introverted, “nice” man who likes interacting with computers more than humans. He grew up in a home where…
Over the course of many years, I turned from a natural on a stage when I was a kid to a nervous wreck before public talks. That after so many years of psychoanalysis was due to some dysfunction that I grew up around in my family of origin.
Education is defined in many dictionaries as a process of learning and instruction carried out in schools. But what is learning? learning is the process of knowing and knowing is the process of digesting information. Digesting information is applying cognition and interpretation to data. So you…
I am sure I am not the only one who reads random articles about psychology every now and then. Even here on medium you probably bump into random pop psychology and self-help articles a lot. One talks about relationships and one talks about burnout in the workplace…
I am not a super religious guy but I think about faith a lot. Perhaps since I was little I always thought that the idea of believing in a higher power is quite ridiculous. Even though I went through religious phases I never got hooked. To me, faith requires some form of delusion about how the world…