Mind - Child

Have you ever felt that our mind, most of the times, behaves like child!!?
Yes it is!

Whenever we tell a child to not to do something..he tries to do that.
Same is our mind. If you tell your mind not to think about something ..it starts making thesis on the "something"!! :)

I would like to convey you an important observation from this correlation between mind and child. That observation is related to cultivation of mind.

Consider an infant in your house(assume one!). If you don't give him anything to play, what he will do!? Most of the times he falls asleep. Sometimes he feels bored. When he feels bored, there are chances that he'll try to play with hazardous articles in home such as knife or power sockets, which can cause great harm to him.

But if you,selectively, give him some harmless article, such as a Brinjal, he'll play with it. He shakes it. He tries to bite it(However he can't, since no teeth). He drops it. He'll play until he gets tired and then falls asleep. No harm.

Now, let us compare the child's behavior with our mind's. If you don't give any work or good thoughts to your mind...what it'll do!! It'll become lethargic initially. And then starts generating evil thoughts. You must have observed this when you are sitting idle in home. As far as I observed, people, who don't engage their mind in positive thoughts or activities, do revolve in an infinite loop of negative thoughts.
But if we, selectively, give our brain some good thoughts, it'll play with the good thought and will be positive and active as well.

To better put my point, let me give a metaphor.

If you have an acre of field and you don't sow any useful seeds, weeds grow throught the field and cosumes fertility of the field. In same way, If you don't give good thoughts to your brain, bad thoughts automatically pop-up and cosume your energy.

So moral is:
Empty Mind is Devil's work shop.

Stay engaged in mastering your mind.

Story of multitasking machine we carry with us!!

    As soon as we come across the word "multitasking", what comes into our mind is our modern processor. Yes,modern processor's architecture and organizations are evolved to such extent so that they can handle multiple tasks so nicely.

    Along with modern processor, in fact prior to modern processor, we have another entity which can exhibit multitasking phenomena better than modern processor. Guess what!!

It's our brain,the most complex part of universe!!


It is our multitasking machine we carry with,to be precise,within us.

Let me explain brain's mechanism of handling multitasking by clearing following misconceptions which are common to most people.
Misconception1->Multi tasking saves time.
Misconception2->Multi Tasking and Concurrent Tasking are same.

1-> Multi tasking doesn't save time!!! And worse part is, it may, sometimes, lead to consume more time than we take for doing one task at a time!! Weird Huh!! Not convinced!!

Take a pen and paper. Do the following exercise, it'll be a fun!:

Case 1:
Write down "Multi tasking is weird".
And then below each character, assign numbers sequentially. i.e., 1 below 'w',2 below 'u', 3 below 'l' and so on.
 Note how much time you've taken.
Done!!



Now!! Do the following:

Case 2:
 Now we need to do the same thing. But instead assigning numbers after completely writing the sentence, do that after writing each character.
 i.e., First write 'W' and write '1' below it.
Then write 'u' and write '2' below it. Continue till the end of whole sentence.

Try yaar!!
Done!!
 You should have noted you've taken more time. And you must have felt difficult to do it as well!!


Why it is so!!! Because:
We are assuming our brain is doing concurrent tasking. But, in fact, it just doing multi-tasking.

2-> Multi tasking and concurrent tasking are not same. Concurrent tasking means doing multiple tasks parallelly. Multitasking is switching between multiple tasks and executing each task in such a way, that we get a feeling that we are doing the tasks concurrently.

Eg:With reference to above exercise:
We have two tasks in the exercise.
 1. Writing the alphabets of the sentence.
 2. Writing the numbers in sequence.

In case1 we have done one task after another. No multitasking. No concurrent tasking.

In case2 we felt we've done two tasks parallelly. But what actually happened is our brain was switching between reminding alphabets and reminding number sequence. Yes It was switching.
That's why you've taken more time (because of switching delay) and felt difficult or tired (because of switching power loss).

(For our exercise, concurrent execution of tasks would be:
One person writing sentence, another person assigning numbers below each character as soon as it is written.)

Now the misconceptions are cleared.

Now lets see implications of multitasking.
To better understand the implications, let me give a metaphor. When we open more applications in mobile phone and try to run them concurrently. Then efficiency of processor reduces and sometimes our phone may hang!! Everyone must have felt the pain of having phone hanged in our hands!!

Similar effects will be on our brain when we do frequent multi tasking. However, it may not hang like smart phone, but it's efficiency comes down considerably, as you must of have observed while doing above exercise.

REason for this reduction of efficiency is...
We know brain consumes lots energy to perform it's duties. When we try to frequently switch its duties, it'll lose some energy in the process of switching.
It's just like our body loses energy if we frequently hop between two rocks.
A better example would be(for ECE folks), if we frequently switch a transistor state, we'll lose some power as switching power.


So, as a learned person, henceforth... Do not open chat boxes while you study. Do not watch TV while eating. Lest, your brain under-performs.


So the conclusion is, reduce temptation to distract from the task you are doing.
Stay concentrated. Stay with lasting brain efficiency.

Have a nice day!!

Why is the idea of good habit is easy to think but hard to implement?

Suppose u keep a ball in the middle of inclined plane. That automatically comes down without any effort.. due to gravity acting downwards. But it takes persistent effort to take it to top.. against gravity.

Here we are like the ball.

Unfortunately we are living in an inclined society…in which gravity is towards wrong habits.

So we need to put persistent and consistent efforts to move towards good habit against bad gravity.

That's why it is little hard to implement a good habit.

But it's worth the struggle!!!!

Because habits forms behaviour…behaviour forms character…character keeps us successful…

so …it all starts from ur Habits..

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Interesting fact abt Olympics!!!!

Its Olympic mania everywhere..
One thing u must be noticing is that almost every medal winner..do bite their medal...
Well have you ever wondered the reason behind this??………
This is actually not for showoff. It’s a past practice which has now became a trademark for players and has a very unique reason behind it.
Earlier, when players were awarded with gold medals, it was actually made of pure gold and was not simply gold plated. The players used to check the authenticity of the gold medal by biting it. Gold, being a very soft metal (softer than tooth enamel), would leave some teeth marks by biting it. So, this practice of biting the medal allowed players to check whether it was pure gold or not.
Slowly it became a tradition. Now a days the medals the gold plated and no teeth marks are imprinted on it while biting. The players also know this but following this old practice they show their medals in such style.
Quite interesting, isn’t it??…….

Good lesson..from Hindu Mythology..

According to Hindu Mythology..there have been four eras namely..
1.Satya yuga
2.Treta yuga
3.Dwapari yuga
4.Kali yuga

In Satya yuga conflict and war used to be between Devas(Gods) and Rakshsas(Demons) who belong to two different worlds namely Devlok and Rakshalok.
In Treta yuga war was between Lord Rama and Demon Ravana who belong to two different countries namely India and Lanka.
In Dwapari yuga war was between Pandavas and Kouravas who belong to same families.

You must have observed decrement of distance between rivals as eras passing.

In Kali yuga, the present era..The war is between good and bad who lie in ourselves. So the war is inside us.
Until Kali yuga good had been winning. But in this Kali yuga..winner (among good and bad) is decided by human himself..with his character and attitude.

Sounds logical,isn't it!!
Keep smiling..
take care!!

Is Copying good or bad..??!!

Hai!!!!
Right from our childhood we are accustomed to believe that copying something is bad.!!
I would like to contradict this dogma. And I advocate everything in this world is copying (Just think about it once!!!).
In my opinion Copying in itself is neither good nor bad. There are two factors based on which we can conclude whether copying good or bad.
Those are:
1.When you are copying(Situation)
2.What you are copying
Let me briefly discuss about those factors.
1.When you are copying(Situation) :
Suppose u missed a class and you want to know what was happened in the class. In that situation you may copy content from your friend's notebook. It's fine.
Whereas, if you copy the same content from the same friend in examination..It's not fine,isn't it!
This way a situation when you are copying decides nature of the copying.
2.What you are copying :
It is very important thing one must understand...we are what we copy from our surroundings. Yes!!
Obviously, our surroundings are filled with good and bad as well.
So if we copy good things and good ways..we'll be good
Whereas if we copy bad things and bad ways..we'll be bad.
For better understanding...
Let us consider..A person wants to learn Mathematics. There are two people in his surroundings..one who failed in tenth standard mathematics..second who secured top grade.
Now..if the person copies first one..he'll be ended up with nothing. But if the person copies second he can fulfill his wish. Same is true if you want be successful..copy successful people not failed people.

So,Dear friends, Be careful about what you are copying and when you are copying...because it decides our status in life!!!
So conclusion...Copying in itself is neither good nor bad...just like water is neither acid nor base.
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