The Learning Pill

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...

Source:  KCR College Radio Hello people In this blog, we will talk about the most famous and talked-about emotion: Love. It is universal like pain, meaning that most animal species experience it (though for species other than primates, love tends to act as a motivator for sexual and parenting behavior). But in primates, and especially Homo sapiens (i.e., us), the concept of love gets very complicated since our cognitive ability helps us experience love in various realms. For example, you may love your mother, your sister, your best friend, your favorite burger, or even yourself, but you love each of them in different ways. So, let's try to understand this emotion from various domains. Evolutionary standpoint: This standpoint attempts to explain the basis of love which applies to all the species. If you have heard of the term 'evolution,' you probably would have heard of the most prominent theory in this domain: the 'Theory of natural selection' proposed by Charles D...

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...