Just listening to others can make your interactions more positive. “You’ve put on so much weight since I last saw you.” “Oh no! You’ve started balding.” “I know a good dentist who can straighten your son’s crooked teeth.” We, Indians,…
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Just listening to others can make your interactions more positive. “You’ve put on so much weight since I last saw you.” “Oh no! You’ve started balding.” “I know a good dentist who can straighten your son’s crooked teeth.” We, Indians,…
Research suggests that behaviours that impede studying can be changed. Just looking at the books piled on you study table makes you queasy. Your exams are a few weeks away and you are trying hard to be disciplined. You lock…
With the smartphone camera, are we in any way altering how we might remember our everyday lives? With smartphones becoming practically ubiquitous, almost everyone now wields a camera in his pocket. So, it has become almost second nature for us…
Focus on the process instead of the results, give room for failure and you will find it easier to keep your New Year resolutions. As the year end approaches, we can’t help ourselves making well-intentioned promises — from next year,…
That people have preferred learning styles is an idea that has entrenched itself in the educational scape over the last two decades. The most frequently touted styles, based on sensory modalities, are visual, auditory and kinaesthetic.
Adopting an open outlook towards the ‘other’, and accepting diversity in its myriad hues broadens one’s horizon. Recent events in the news suggest that the world is growing more insular and polarised. The tragic shooting at Orlando, and Brexit exemplify…
Learning to observe deeply is an invaluable tool in any field “Pay attention!” Almost all students have been at the receiving end of this injunction, at some point in their academic lives. But, what do teachers really mean by this…
Spacing study sessions will win hands down in improving learning skills. Navya is dejected when she sees her exam results. Tears well up as she stares at her mark sheet. As her friends cheerfully post their marks on Facebook and…
Just because something has a number tagged to it, does not make it automatically valid. A few weeks ago, I was approached by two young, dynamic entrepreneurs who were keen on setting up a startup in the area of children’s…
Sturm und Drang. This Germanic phrase, which loosely translates as “storm and stress”, originally denoted a German literary movement in the 18th century. However, it also describes a particularly poignant phase of human development. Adolescence. Afte…
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.