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...

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 ...