The Learning Pill

Source:  The Creativity Post Are you sure that you are smart? Can you be accurate when estimating your competency in a particular skill or field? Maybe NOT. This uncertainty is due to a cognitive bias, namely, the  Dunning-Kruger effect . What is the Dunning-Kruger effect? It is a cognitive bias according to which less-skilled individuals tend to overestimate their skill level. In contrast, the highly skilled ones tend to underestimate their competency.  In other words, a person who has little knowledge about a field tends to think that he might be close to an expert in the field or might consider himself to be above-average in the least. While in reality, he might be among the bottom 10 to 20 percentile of the folks in the field. On the other hand, a person with a post-graduate degree in that field might feel that he would probably lie in the 70 percentile range. Although, he might be better than 90% of people out there. This underestimate is not because he doubts his sk...

Source: 1mg What do you go to work for? What do you plan your tomorrow for? What is the end goal we all are trying to achieve?  Well, most common answer to those questions is: TO BE HAPPY, OBVIOUSLY! And that is what this blog is going to be about: HAPPINESS. Prologue We will be discussing various philosophical and scientific definitions and theories of happiness. We will then be moving to techniques that can help achieve a state of happiness in real life. Theories related to Happiness Aristotle  was one of the first people to theorize the concept of happiness. According to his theory, happiness is composed of two major aspects: Hedonia: which refers to the concept that happiness is the outcome of the pursuit of pleasure over pain. This addresses the more short-term and immediate type of happiness like the immediate gratification you get by eating your favourite ice-cream or having your favourite pizza.  Eudemonia: which refers to a feeling that life is well-lived. Acco...