Big Braining: Top 9 Hobbies to refine Critical Thinking
I’ve curated 9 hobbies that help you build critical thinking in fun, non-academic ways.
A Thrifty Brain gave us Multi-tasking Abilities
Unlike a computer, which would recruit multiple “cores” to multitask, the brain has to use a pretty sophisticated workaround to multi-task. And it all comes …
Where does our Sense of Beauty come from?
Whoever engages with the beautiful has a good soul. Emmanuel Kant said something like that. Hegel said the art we create transcends the beauty of …
6 Best Study techniques for Memorizing Facts
These are the best studying techniques to improve memory for facts. Use them right after you start learning.
Big Changes break our Perception – blame our Words
As the world changes, we are a little blind to process those changes. We talk about changes to understand them. 2 problems – Hypocognition and …
Mind-Body Connection: 8 hobby ideas for 2025
I’ve curated 8 hobbies that build the mind-body connection in many ways – mind-eye, mind-limbs, mind-ear, mind-balance, etc. If you want start a new hobby for 2025, try these.
2 Key Emotions in Learning: Confusion & Curiosity
Highlights Curiosity & Confusion are 2 of the most powerful emotions in education. 🤔Curiosity leads to exploration and filling one’s knowledge gap.😕Confusion leads to deep …
6 Universal Words across most Languages
Some words are “universal” words because they are shared by most languages or understood by most people. Here are the different kinds of universal words and how they emerged.
Managing Social Anxiety for Networking Events
Social anxiety – a feeling of tension, self-doubt, and stress emerging from actually interacting with people and the idea of interacting with people. This can …
Neural Circuits of Productivity Uncovered
The 100 billion neurons in the brain create circuits that help us be productive. These are 5 main neural circuits that are responsible for our productivity.
The Era of Meta-Skills: AI can’t replace these
For eons we have been a civilization that used skills to adapt and adjust. We used skills to alter our environment by building things. One …
AI has a Personality, but it doesn’t mean anything… yet
I just read this preprint[1] in which researchers have adapted a standard personality test (a version of the OCEAN Big 5 model) to assess LLMs’ …
Gain fluency in a new language at record speeds (How-to)
These are 4 techniques to gain fluency in a new or second language. They are contextually built on top of basic learning principles relevant to the brain.
Sciency Guide to Expert-level Memory Skills
At the simplest level, memory can be viewed as a 3-step process – encoding, storage, and retrieval. But you’ll see the story gets a lot …
Core Financial Concepts in Psychology
Psychology and economics are closely related. Here are 7 dominant concepts in psychology that affect financial behavior.
Your brain on Productivity: Thinking & Doing modes
When we think of productivity, we often think about productivity habits, focus, and getting work done efficiently. There is enough good and bad advice on …