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  • Guarding against Inaction Regrets

    Guarding against Inaction Regrets

    Daily writing prompt
    Write about a time when you didn’t take action but wish you had. What would you do differently?
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    The science associated with Inaction Regrets

    Guarding against Inaction Regrets helps you overcome regrets that you experience with increasing age. Not acting on the power of mindfulness at an early age is one regret that I have at the current time.

    In his book The Power of Regret the author Daniel Pink has highlighted how we start feeling guilty for not acting at the right time.

    This guilt has been scientifically proven to increase over a period of time.

    Hence armed with this insight let us take an oath to act now to ensure a regret free future.

    Please read this insight around the same topic, to know the details:

    https://viewpointsunplugged.com/act-on-inaction-regrets/

    Guarding against Inaction Regrets
  • The Art of Judging Strangers

    The Art of Judging Strangers

    Daily writing prompt
    Describe a random encounter with a stranger that stuck out positively to you.
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    The art of judging strangers is a very rare skill thus making this a very difficult task. Over the past few weeks I have tried learning about this skill from Malcolm Gladwell’s best selling book.

    In his book Talking to Strangers, the author Malcolm Gladwell encourages us to use the same standards of judging strangers with ourselves as well, as mentioned below”

    “We think we can easily see into the hearts of others based on the flimsiest of clues. We jump at the chance to judge strangers. We would never do that to ourselves, of course. We are nuanced and complex and enigmatic. But the stranger is easy. If I can convince you of one thing in this book, let it be this: Strangers are not easy.”

    Talking to Strangers – Malcolm Gladwell

    Thus next time around when you talk to strangers be mindful of judging them with the right measurement criteria in order to accept or discard them as friends in your life..

    To know more about Malcolm Gladwell and his work, please visit this link:

    https://www.gladwellbooks.com

    If you have not already grab a copy of this book today.

    the art of judging strangers

  • Inculcate Grit in school children

    Inculcate Grit in school children

    Daily writing prompt
    Describe something you learned in high school.
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    Why encourage Grit in school children?

    Inculcate grit in school children by encouraging the process of solving problems rather than grades as an end product is the tip that I would give any school. This is what I learnt in my high school.

    This insight inspired from Thomas Sterner’s book reflects on the same topic and is a great reminder to schools who stress on the grading system.

    Inculcate Grit in school children

    A similar insight on how schools can improve can be found in this insight:

    https://viewpointsunplugged.com/two-things-all-great-schools-teach/

  • Render the service of Motivation

    Render the service of Motivation

    Daily writing prompt
    What job would you do for free?
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    The job that I would do for free is to render the service of motivation.

    Motivation is the single MOST POSITIVE EMOTION that gives us hope and optimism to lead our lives in a meaningful manner. This motivates us to think that the future would be bright for all of us.

    Render the service of Motivation

    To MOTIVATE the most important criteria is to ACT.

    Hence whenever you get a chance, motivate people around you and serve those who serve others.

  • For the love of Team Sport

    For the love of Team Sport

    Daily writing prompt
    What Olympic sports do you enjoy watching the most?
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    Though Olympics itself is a lesson in itself I follow soccer and hockey Olympic matches the most, for the love of team sport.

    Both hockey and soccer that I love are both team sports.Team sports are characterized by high performing and trusting teams. When you experience the team in action, you realize the value of working and being successful as a group.

    The more I watch and admire soccer and hockey the more I admire the following insight from Simon Sinek:

    For the love of Team Sport

    Finally few other inspiring insights from Simon Sinek, on high performing teams and how trust plays a key role in developing world beating soccer and hockey teams.

    “A team is NOT a group of people who WORK TOGETHER.

    A team is a group of people who TRUST each other”

    For inspirational insights from Simon Sinek, please visit the below link:

    https://www.benchmarkemail.com/blog/simon-sinek-quotes-will-change-your-business

  • Role of Friction in Dopamine Detox

    Role of Friction in Dopamine Detox

    How can Friction help in Dopamine Detox?

    Role of Friction in Dopamine Detox is very significant to reduce the “reward seeking” arousal effect.

    The intent of this technique is to make the activity, that leads to the arousal, difficult to accomplish.

    The following insight elaborates on the same and has been inspired from Thibaut Meurisse’s book.

    For another similar insight around the same topic, please visit this link:

    https://viewpointsunplugged.com/benefits-of-dopamine-detox/

    To know more about Thibaut Meurisse and his work, please visit the link:

    https://whatispersonaldevelopment.org/about-thibaut/

  • Power of Social Media Notifications

    Power of Social Media Notifications

    How do social media notifications impact our focus?

    Power of social media notifications is undeniable. This is the precise reason billions of dollars is being spent to understanding the art of hacking human focus.

    As mentioned in the below insight dopamine driven reward seeking mechanism of the human brain has existed right from the caveman times.

    It is this reward seeking mindset that is exploited by notifications at the detriment of human well being.

    Power of social media notifications

    The intent of this blog post is to make you aware such that we all can guard against this exploitation and lead fulfilling lives.

    Read this blog post to understand how to focus on mindfulness for dopamine detox.

    https://viewpointsunplugged.com/mindfulness-for-dopamine-detox/

    To know more about Thibaut Meurisse and his work please visit:

    https://thibautmeurisse.com