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Counterintuitive Series: Babies resisting sleep Counterintuitiveness makes life more interesting. It also briefly reveals gaps or lags in our understanding or mindsets. This particular one is a hypothesis and not an example (yet at least),…
image: source Counterintuitiveness – Unhurried conversations Counterintuitiveness makes life more interesting. It also briefly reveals gaps or lags in our understanding or mindsets. Some weeks ago, I chanced upon a virtual session titled "Unhurried Conversations…
Counterintuitiveness makes life more interesting. It also briefly reveals gaps or lags in our understanding or mindsets. A recent article, and probably many before that, states how pre-rinsing dishes before putting them in the dishwasher…
Pic: source In light of the current Russian war on Ukraine, and similar tensions and wars over the past decades that have left thousands dead, millions homeless and helpless.. here's stating some obvious thoughts that…
This post explores an alternative to fix the replication crisis (particularly in the behavioural science and economics fields, and if relevant, in other fields too). This post is in continuation to an earlier post titled…
A humorous take on the paradox that exists between the views or tendencies of us common humans, versus that of therapists, who seem to take the more empathetic approach, versus some behavioural science practitioners…
Image: source The Replication Crisis is an ongoing crisis where it has been difficult or impossible to reproduce findings of scientific studies. The field of behavioural science too, has had its challenges with replicating past…
Photo by Maksim Goncharenok from Pexels In the past, US Anti-vaxxer protests have not gone unnoticed by the world. And while it was surprising then, anyone who was curious enough to dig a bit…
Do you use hyperboles often? I do. Mostly with close friends and family, but when necessary, with clients or my students. Helps convey the meaning or gravity of an idea or situation. Like when Gordon…
Image: source We humans have always dealt awkwardly with time. Some look for new ways to kill it. Others, better ways to fill it. And the lockdown has really done a number on how we…
Two days ago, I was reminded of a Medium post I had read in the early days of the pandemic. One of the interesting things about it, was that the author attempted to understand and…
What was missing before and during the 2007-08 global financial meltdown, and during the Covid-19 pandemic? Or during the Spanish Flu? Or in Nazi Germany? Something that perhaps could have prevented the resulting tragedies? …
In my book, I briefly discussed the topic of quality in the world of innovation and automation. My view was that through the quality revolution in the US and Japan and then other parts of…
I had been seeing a lot of social media profiles with a 'He/Him' or 'She/Her' mentioned alongside the name, but didn't completely understand the purpose. A close friend recently explained them as gender pronouns. Given…
Classic economics started off factoring psychology and behavioural trends and shortcomings (biases) into economic understanding. However, through the ages, economic concepts and policies were built on the assumption that humans are rational beings. This was…