Assume defeat. Yes. It need not make you a pessimist, but can help you face the eventualities You are part of a team that has to analyse a business case and present your recommendations to the entire class. Yikes! Your…
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Assume defeat. Yes. It need not make you a pessimist, but can help you face the eventualities You are part of a team that has to analyse a business case and present your recommendations to the entire class. Yikes! Your…
Keep your eye on the prize, but remember to celebrate the incremental steps you make towards it. You dread speaking in public. Yet, you sign up to take part in a debate in class. Pat yourself on your back. You…
Some forethought could help to thoroughly optimize your downtime Everyone looks forward to moments of relaxation. When we can tune out daily stresses and just be ourselves. Often, the pulls and tugs of daily life can be so
There are concrete steps you can take when negative thoughts threaten to engulf you I suck at Chemistry. I’m the only one who hasn’t landed an internship. I will never be able to crack the CAT. All my close friends…
Though snappy responses are favoured, pause to reflect A good friend of mine, who works for an investment bank in the U.S., was looking for another job. Given her impressive credentials, she was called by
If there’s something about your personality you’ve been wanting to change, here’s good news — it is entirely possible That people can change in fundamental ways is not readily accepted by many individuals, even when they are presented with evidence.
Trying times? Look for things you can be grateful for. You have been rejected by all the master’s programmes you applied to in the U.S. You try to land a job before you reapply but not a single company calls…
Muthu Sir flashes a photograph of gently rolling hills on the smart board and poses a question to the class, “Is there any evidence in this picture that the land was sculpted by glaciers?”
As I look back on my student years, I can count a handful of teachers who not only helped me decode the subtext of Shakespearean prose, generate a testable hypothesis or critique the operational definitions of abstract psychological constructs but…
Using seemingly innocuous words like ‘I’ and ‘we’ reveals more about our psyche than we think. Language is one of the key faculties that sets humans apart from other primates. And, the way we use language speaks volumes about ourselves.
Aruna Sankaranarayanan is the author of Zero Limits: Things Every 20 Something Should Know. She was the Founder & Director of PRAYATNA, a centre for children with learning difficulties in Bengaluru & Chennai for 22 years.