Aditya Shukla

Hey! Thank you for reading; hope you enjoyed the article. I run Cognition Today to capture some of the most fascinating mechanisms that guide our lives. My content here is referenced and featured in NY Times, Forbes, CNET, and Entrepreneur, and many other books & research papers. I'm am a psychology SME consultant in EdTech with a focus on AI cognition and Behavioral Engineering. I'm affiliated to myelin, an EdTech company in India as well. I've studied at NIMHANS Bangalore (positive psychology), Savitribai Phule Pune University (clinical psychology), Fergusson College (BA psych), and affiliated with IIM Ahmedabad (marketing psychology). I'm currently studying Korean at Seoul National University. I'm based in Pune, India but living in Seoul, S. Korea. Love Sci-fi, horror media; Love rock, metal, synthwave, and K-pop music; can't whistle; can play 2 guitars at a time.

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Why Your Empathy is Dying

Before I compiled concrete reasons why our Empathy levels drop, my instinct said, “Yeah, of course it’ll drop, empathy takes effort, and we don’t like …

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Why you are consistently Unhappy

In the absence of an ongoing life-changing trauma or circumstance, such as death or being a victim of a crime or personal/financial crisis, if most …

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6 Forms of Beauty: Which do you admire?

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The concept of beauty is as old as our species – its in our instincts to find beauty.

But the concept has evolved beyond physical traits and acquired abstract qualities.

Why we need Wabi-Sabi in a post-AI world

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Speed changed our Attention span

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WHY are we watching videos where a story is narrated with the video being a random Minecraft gameplay?

WHY are we using 3 screens at a time with 3 different things?

– streams of attention and speed

How does Cognition happen?

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How does cognition happen in the brain? Here’s the 4E theory of cognition that says cognition is a connection between the body, brain, our tools, and our environment.

How to Biohack your Energy Level (7 steps)

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These are 7 effective steps of biohacking yourself to have more energy for everyday life and challenging tasks. Here’s how you can improve your life with psychological fixes.