1) Reading books with high intellectual content like Ayn Rand ( or ) with no intellectual content at all like Scott Adams
2) Watching movies which are high brainier's like Amir Khan and RGV ( or ) no brainier's like Akshay kumar and Rajendra prasad
3) Taking decisions by carefully analyzing all the alternatives ( or ) doing things instantaneously and impulsively without thinking.
4)Investing in rock study companies which won't not get affected by any adverse economic trends ( or ) highly speculative companies which may either go bankrupt or become strong companies over time.
5) Working extremely hard to complete the assignments when the work is interesting ( or ) trying to avoid work by hook or crook when it is boring.
6) Being extremely loud and noisy with friends ( or ) extremely silent and decent with colleagues.
7) Buying Products of the companies which will charge huge prices compared to the competitors and continue to increase their prices like Apple and Nike ( or ) companies which sell products for the least prices and continue to decrease prices with their efficiency like Big Bazar and Airtel.
8) Watching or wearing Colors which cause pleasure to senses like white ( or ) which will show strength like black.
9) Observing People who take the work so seriously and try to achieve perfection in every aspect like Sachin, Ayn Rand and Amir ( or ) who wont even care about their work like Sehvag or RGV.
10) Listening to the Melodious and classic music like Illayaraja ( or ) trendy and western music like AR Rehman and shakira.
Friday 19 November 2010
Thursday 18 November 2010
Backward Reasoning
Most of the time we do something then we try to justify it with a reason than actually taking a decision based on proper reasoning.
I read in some book by scott adams that in a controlled lab environment it was proven that in the mind the part which is responsible for reasoning will react way later compared to the part responsible for the action, which means we continue to do actions randomly and then try to make up reasons for the actions already done , which is quite disturbing and I personally can not fully believe .But I can see many of us do this to some extent.
The classic example for this is , in 'saving private ryan' movie when the Tom hanks troop has been sent to save one soldier,In a discussion Tom hanks will say that Ryan should become some scientist or save many lives to justify the effort they are putting. Even though he is not having any idea whom they are going to save and he is doing that only because he was given orders ..But that wont stop him reasoning to justify his actions..
No matter how stupid the action seems to you , if you ask the person he will tell you a fascinating reason. I don't think the followers of the raj thakray or telangana activists will think they are stupid. They typically believe they have a solid reason behind their actions.
It is very helpful to understand the backward reasoning as it is one of the trap's that our mind plays on us.Whenever we make any mistake instead of rectifying it we will continue to find reasons to justify our actions. It would be better if we understand that we made mistake and focus on how to rectify the same.
I read in some book by scott adams that in a controlled lab environment it was proven that in the mind the part which is responsible for reasoning will react way later compared to the part responsible for the action, which means we continue to do actions randomly and then try to make up reasons for the actions already done , which is quite disturbing and I personally can not fully believe .But I can see many of us do this to some extent.
The classic example for this is , in 'saving private ryan' movie when the Tom hanks troop has been sent to save one soldier,In a discussion Tom hanks will say that Ryan should become some scientist or save many lives to justify the effort they are putting. Even though he is not having any idea whom they are going to save and he is doing that only because he was given orders ..But that wont stop him reasoning to justify his actions..
No matter how stupid the action seems to you , if you ask the person he will tell you a fascinating reason. I don't think the followers of the raj thakray or telangana activists will think they are stupid. They typically believe they have a solid reason behind their actions.
It is very helpful to understand the backward reasoning as it is one of the trap's that our mind plays on us.Whenever we make any mistake instead of rectifying it we will continue to find reasons to justify our actions. It would be better if we understand that we made mistake and focus on how to rectify the same.
Monday 8 November 2010
Free advice
"Success is achieved by development of our strengths, not by elimination of our weakness." - Marilyn Vos Savant
In our interaction with people we will get a lot of free advices without even asking for it and Most of the time the persons who are giving the advice will not be having any real knowledge on the problem which doesn't stop them exhibiting their wisdom .In my experience I understand that following free advice is the most expensive mistake we can do.
As a knowledge workers everyone of us would go through a lot of appraisal in which we typically get feedback like ' you have done good in X (some technical work) and bad in Y (some documentation) so next time concentrate more on the job Y, which you did bad'. In the same way from our childhood day we always get advice to concentrate on the subjects which we scored less. By doing which we can neither enjoy nor get expertise in both.Till now I haven't been to any appraisal in which my manager says continue to work more on what you are good , because of which I think most of the appraisals I attended are in fact useless.
If you take in cricket Zaheer has the best in-swinger ,when he started his career our esteemed experts and commentators used to say Zaheer should learn out-swingers. when he was out of form he used to try that and became a mediocre bowler and gone out of cricket for many years. same thing happened to Nehra and Irfan when they tried to learn in-swing and pace.
We may ignore these free advices but they will in-fact effect in our sub-consciousness and will strike when we are down with other problems. So its best to consciously reject them when we got than ignoring. So Its my free advice to you all that not to follow any other free advices.
In our interaction with people we will get a lot of free advices without even asking for it and Most of the time the persons who are giving the advice will not be having any real knowledge on the problem which doesn't stop them exhibiting their wisdom .In my experience I understand that following free advice is the most expensive mistake we can do.
As a knowledge workers everyone of us would go through a lot of appraisal in which we typically get feedback like ' you have done good in X (some technical work) and bad in Y (some documentation) so next time concentrate more on the job Y, which you did bad'. In the same way from our childhood day we always get advice to concentrate on the subjects which we scored less. By doing which we can neither enjoy nor get expertise in both.Till now I haven't been to any appraisal in which my manager says continue to work more on what you are good , because of which I think most of the appraisals I attended are in fact useless.
If you take in cricket Zaheer has the best in-swinger ,when he started his career our esteemed experts and commentators used to say Zaheer should learn out-swingers. when he was out of form he used to try that and became a mediocre bowler and gone out of cricket for many years. same thing happened to Nehra and Irfan when they tried to learn in-swing and pace.
We may ignore these free advices but they will in-fact effect in our sub-consciousness and will strike when we are down with other problems. So its best to consciously reject them when we got than ignoring. So Its my free advice to you all that not to follow any other free advices.
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