The Learning Pill

Hello readers Do you find it difficult to find the motivation to do your important tasks? Do you always think of a master plan for your tasks but never execute it and always end up wasting your time? That is exactly the problem we are going to address today: self-motivation. We will try to analyze possible reasons for lack of motivation and try to come up with solutions that can be applicable in real life. Source: Lifehack What is motivation? Simply put, motivation is the drive that makes you do a certain action to achieve a goal. Let’s take a very basic example. Let’s say there is a burger in front of you. Now if you are hungry, then your mind gives you that sensation of feeling hungry and makes you grab and eat that burger. This drive that made you want to pick up that burger is motivation. Obviously, this is a very basic biological example of motivation and that’s not what we are dealing with here. Our concern is self-motivation, so what is it? Extending on the meaning of ...

Source:  allure Hello people Let us try to understand another emotion which everyone goes through at some point in his/her life: Grief. Disclaimer : The purpose of this discussion was to better understand a very complicated emotion- grief. This discussion is in no way suggestive of the solutions to grief.  Realizing this is a sensitive topic, we have tried to stick to the facts and do not intend to trigger anyone. What is grief? Grief is an emotion which is felt as a response to a loss. This loss can be anything, it can be your favorite pen or a pet or a loved one (obviously the degree of grief felt varies depending on the loss and your connection with it). With this loss, comes the sadness for it (grief) and the hope that that loss can be countered by getting a new thing or getting the old thing back. But when this loss is a death of a person, this hope isn’t there since it is a permanent loss (irreversible change). And therefore, dealing with a permanent loss like th...

Source: pinterest Hola everyone Today we will try to understand yet another movie- Dead Poet’s Society, a 1989 film starring Robin Williams. It is basically a movie on the unconventional teaching techniques and it’s effectiveness. Even though the film is based on a 1980-90s London setting, a lot of the issues dealt with in the movie seem to be relevant to this day, and hence, it becomes important to discuss it. Conventional parenting    and teaching Source: Script Magazine The first part of the movie tries to explain the current parenting and teaching that the students experience. We see Neil Perry’s father forcing his son to leave his extra-curricular activities and rather focus on his academics and pursue a career in medicine. This academics-first approach is also endorsed by the teachers at their school. Their results-oriented teaching style includes teaching bookish knowledge and flushing the students with loads of assignments. Furthermore, the strict disciplinary rules ...

Source: Harvard Health Today, we dive into the concept of pain and suffering. We will discuss it's concept from a philosophical and a psychological standpoint. Introduction Source: Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy We all have experienced pain in our lives at varying degrees. It can be viewed objectively as a bodily or a mental sensation. For example, a muscle pull or a broken nail tells our brain that a part of our body has been hurt, and this can be viewed as pain. But pain can also be viewed as an emotion, a feeling, and not something physical or a part of our body. This creates a perception that pain doesn't actually exist physically, and it is rather a made-up concept of our mind to signal damage or sudden change to the body. There is a thin line between these two concepts, but the apparent philosophical paradox still exists. Our intention here is to just introduce the philosophy of pain, and we will now spend more time in analyzing this emotion/ sensation. Why is pain i...

Source: Pinterest Hello readers Today, we will try to understand the philosophy and the psychology behind a 1999 8.8 IMDb-rated movie- FIGHT CLUB. We would highly suggest to watch the movie (if you haven't already) before reading further since there are going to be spoilers (Though we have tried not to give out the major spoilers) OK, with that said, let's jump straight into it. Monotonous life- a slow killer Source: Medium The first 14 minutes of the movie describe the boring, monotonous life of the nameless narrator and how it had caused him insomnia. It seems that the narrator was slowly dying inside, and just living life for the sake of it. This monotony breaks when he first attends an anonymous meeting for people with testicular cancer. Though he did not have the cancer, this was a place where other people were going through things way worse than him, and so, this was a place where he could be vulnerable, let his guards down, without anyone judging him. And this is what he...

Protestors demonstrate against Tunisian President  Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali  in Tunis on January 14, 2011       (REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra) Background: Arab Spring, which began in 2010-2011, was a pro-democratic protest which rose in the Middle East and North Africa, challenging some of the region's authoritarian regimes. It was started because the people were being oppressed by the regime and were given a low standard of living.   The protest first started in  Tunisia , and slowly created a mass movement across all of the Arab nations, with small or large demonstrations taking place in every country. Some of the countries successfully toppled the regime, while many have not only been unsuccessful, but also have had to face the consequences for more than ten years since the war stated.  The first demonstration took place in Central Tunisia in December 2010, where a 26-year-old street vendor,  Mohamed Bouazizi , immolated himself after being ...