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Belief-system Life-principles

Chasing the highest return on education

Today I chanced upon an article about a survey of international students in US universities. The article gives interesting statistics about the total numbers, demographics, economic impact etc. of international students in USA e.g. Roughly 1 million (i.e. 10 lakh) international students studied in US universities in the last academic year They contributed $31 billion […]

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Belief-system

Take a day off on Diwali

Diwali is the festival that is closest to my heart I am a Bengali from Kolkata. But I grew up in a neighborhood (in my case, my building) where almost all the people were from North India. Every year, for the 2-3 days of Diwali, the whole building would transform into a celebration zone (a […]

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Actionable Featured Productivity time-management

10 Steps to Quick News Fast News

Are you the kind of person, who keeps saying to yourself, “I know I should be keeping up with the news, but I just don’t find the time!”? If you answered YES, then you must read this article to learn the THREE SECRETS to world (news) domination.

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Actionable Belief-system Inspiration

How to overcome fear and learn something new

As children, we find it easy to learn something new. As we grow up, we find it difficult to overcome our fears to learn that new thing we want to learn. But there is a secret trick to overcome the initial barrier.

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Belief-system Life-principles

Impostor syndrome, or when life gives you lemons

What do we do when life makes us question our own capabilities? And what made me write about the life of a troubled American farm-boy? Read on to find out.. Also learn about impostor syndrome. And how every one of us (even the most successful ones) are susceptible to this.

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Belief-system Fiction Life-principles

The Farmboy and The Piano

What do you do when you like to do something, but others seem to do the same thing much better than you? Roy Jackson loved to play the piano, but he was half as good as his classmates. What could he do in such a situation? Read on, to hear Roy’s story…

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Belief-system

Where the “No” is held high

Have you ever found yourself saying “yes” half-heartedly? You wanted to say “no”, but custom made you reply differently. But does the half-hearted “yes” actually help anyone? Read on to find out…

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Belief-system

“You should…” — the most common phrase in the Indian dictionary

‘You should…’ is probably the most common phrase in the Indian dictionary. “You should do well in your studies.”, “You should get married now.”….. but should we actually follow all advice given to us?

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Actionable time-management

How not checking e-mail and Facebook till noon can change your life

We have so many desires and ambitions. The specific desires may be different for each of us. But common to all of us is that we find ourselves running short of time in fulfilling our own aspirations. Between the work-week, and the chore-filled weekend, we never find the time to seek our unique ambitions. But WAIT… What if I told you that we can solve this problem through smarter use of e-mail and Facebook?

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Actionable Featured Master-of-Bestseller-Administration Writing

Five steps to shameless-ness. And how it can change your life.

Our education system teaches us to be modest. That is all well and good when you are the topper in your class, or you are following a conventional career path. But if you ever want to do something out of the box, you have to learn to become shameless. Read on to know the importance of being shameless, and learn five steps to get your shameless on…

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Education Videos

[Recommended video] TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson

This is the most-watched talk of all TED talks. After watching it, you will have no doubt as to how / why this video reached the #1 spot. And it is completely relevant to the theme at GoHatke — Sir Robinson uses his tremendous sense of humour to explain a very serious topic: how schools […]