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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