There are many students in class who study the same thing, understand the same concept and later write the same concept in the exams but what is the use of this,it's like just a memory or rote learning

Why Asking Questions is Good

Learning is the process in which you produce some ideas which was not asked by any other person ever born,you should be knowing the application of the things being taught in real life and thus implementation is these ideas in real life is what makes these concepts in our brain stronger

Maximizing Learning Impact

Don't believe in any law said by any scientist instead try to find some faults in that law,or try to find some exceptions in the law or see where is this law useful and where it is not. It is not always that the law or theory given by any scientist is correct,these were once hypothesis /assumptions and thus can be wrong or right. Asking questions is what makes our mind work extra which others in the current world are not doing. The summation of these extra thinkings is what makes some people cope with difficulties of life while the others can't although they studied the same amount.

Question Everything 

The first step is that act as you have no knowledge about the topic,then understand what the theory or law given is telling us and now start imagining it in real life and now start thinking about other factors which can fail this law. Try to interrelate one law with the other and see if the two laws still holds true . Ask more doubts to teachers and try to extract as much knowledge form the teacher as you can. Go very deep in the topic until you finally reach the atomic or cellular level of that thing. "Learning is not knowing things, learning is having doubts that no one had before "

How To Increase Your Questioning Ability 

Learning the right way and not being satisfied till you get the satisfactory answer is knowledge

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Philosophy

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Learning & Education

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Science & Nature

Why Should You Ask Questions?

<ul><li>Growth and change is a necessity in life. Having the ability to question all of your own beliefs and altering them when better ideas are presented to you is one of the keys to progress. This doesn't mean that you cant hold strong opinions about things, it just means that you shouldn't get married to your beliefs and if you do, be ok with cheating on them. </li><li>Great traders change their opinions all the time which is why it is useless asking good traders what positions they are holding because, by the end of the day, they may have just bought a lot of positions in the opposite direction.</li></ul>

Question Everything

<ul><li>Its impossible to know if our ideas are truly correct until they are proven to be incorrect. Especially in the cases where our ideas are based on past experiences and knowledge.</li><li>This is related to the ideas represented by David Hume where “<a href="https://quotefancy.com/quote/1246762/David-Hume-No-amount-of-observations-of-white-swans-can-allow-the-inference-that-all">No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion</a>."</li><li>This just goes to show that we can never be certain about our ideas/ theories and must always be openminded. </li></ul>

Right vs Wrong Ideas

<ul><li>Striving for 'good explanations' is the first step. These are explanations that are hard to vary, where changing the details would ruin the explanation. e.g. "eating sand cures the common cold" is a bad explanation because if it doesn't work then I could just say that you didn't eat enough sand.</li><li>I believe that another big factor involved in generating positive change is through open dialogue. Having open discussion with people who challenge your views allows you to remain open to new/ different ideas (as long as you aren't just using this to argue with people-you must remain willing to change).</li></ul>

How to Actually Generate Better Ideas

"The problem is not people being uneducated. The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught."

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Personal Development

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Business

Growth and Change

The Theory of Moral Sentiments and Wealth of Nations together encompass one behavioral axiom, “the propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another,” where the objects of trade […] include not only goods, but also gifts, assistance, and favors out of sympathy […] whether it is goods or favors that are exchanged, they bestow gains from trade that humans seek relentlessly in all social transactions.

As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected, but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation. [Our senses] never did, and never can, carry us beyond our own person, and it is by the imagination only that we can form any conception of what are [another man’s] sensations. Neither can that faculty help us to this any other way, than by representing to us what would be our own, if we were in his case. It is the impressions of our own senses only, not those of his, which our imaginations copy.

Pity and compassion are words appropriated to signify our fellow-feeling with the sorrow of others.Sympathy, though its meaning was, perhaps, originally the same, may now, however, without much impropriety, be made use of to denote our fellow-feeling with any passion whatever.

If the very appearances of grief and joy inspire us with some degree of the like emotions, it is because they suggest to us the general idea of some good or bad fortune that has befallen the person in whom we observe them: and in these passions this is sufficient to have some little influence upon us.The effects of grief and joy terminate in the person who feels those emotions, of which the expressions do not, like those of resentment, suggest to us the idea of any other person for whom we are concerned, and whose interests are opposite to his.

Even our sympathy with the grief or joy of another, before we are informed of the cause of either, is always extremely imperfect. General lamentations, which express nothing but the anguish of the sufferer, create rather a curiosity to inquire into his situation, along with some disposition to sympathize with him, than any actual sympathy.

The first question which we ask a sufferer is, “What has befallen you?” Till this be answered, though we are uneasy both from the vague idea of his misfortune, and still more from torturing ourselves with conjectures about what it may be, yet our fellow-feeling is not very considerable.Sympathy, therefore, does not arise so much from the view of the passion, as from that of the situation which excites it.

But whatever may be the cause of sympathy, or however it may be excited, nothing pleases us more than to observe in other men a fellow-feeling with all the emotions of our own breast; nor are we ever so much shocked as by the appearance of the contrary.

Love is an agreeable; resentment, a disagreeable passion; and accordingly we are not half so anxious that our friends should adopt our friendships, as that they should enter into our resentments. We can forgive them [if] they seem to be little affected with the favours which we may have received, but lose all patience if they seem indifferent about the injuries which may have been done to us […]The agreeable passions of love and joy can satisfy and support the heart without any auxiliary pleasure. The bitter and painful [passions] of grief and resentment […] require the healing of sympathy.

The “Theory of Moral Sentiments” and “Wealth of Nations” together encompass one single behavioral axiom that, broadly interpreted, is sufficient to characterize a major portion of the human social and cultural enterprise: it explains why human nature appears to be simultaneously self-regarding and other-regarding.

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Mindfulness

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Motivation & Inspiration

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Books

The Theory of Moral Sentiments

"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."

“You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this and you will find strength.”

Manage carefully what enters to your mind, who you spend your time with, what comes out of your mouth, what type of content you watch, what kind of activities you do.

Take care of your mind

I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable people. All of these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill... I can neither be harmed by any of them, for no man will involve me in wrong, nor can I be angry with my kinsman or hate him.It is my duty to keep my own faculties in a state of tranquility.

Say to yourself in the early morning

• The things you can control: Opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and in a word, whatever are our own actions.• The things you cannot control: Body, property, reputation, command, and in one word, whatever are not our own actions.

Learn to differentiate between:

Stoicism is not about being arrogant; it is not about telling everyone that you are better than them, it is not about comparing yourself to others with the goal of feeling better than them, making them less.Stoicism is about being humble; it is about comparing yourself to others making use of admiration, with the only goal of honing our virtues of character. It is about being kind and making use of compassion to learn from others. But in order to achieve that, we must possess a strong and firm self-esteem.

Arrogance, envy & admiration

There is no point in being angry at people that do not know any better. There is no point in being angry at nature; it is what it is. Being resentful about the things that are beyond our control is pointless.Instead, what we can do is accepting the things we cannot change and keep our own faculties in a state of tranquility.

Rancor is not the way

Blaming others is senseless; we must take responsibility and control of our mental state.No one makes us feel anything, we decide how we feel; no one can hurt us, we decide to feel hurt or not.The only person responsible for our feelings is oneself.

We are responsible for our feelings

Use daily stuff to strengthen your mind, see every aversion as a challenge, as an opportunity to rise and make your mind stronger.

Strengthen your mind

Avoiding things that trigger you, taking care of your mind and what is ingested by it; mental Peace.Addressing them, getting deep into your routes, and solving the existencial problems that may exist in your mind; prospering.

Find a balance between

Stoicism for Mental Peace 

The “existential” bit has to do with your own existence — specifically, the meaning of your existence.Questions like “who am I?” and “why am I here?” and “what are my values?”There are two modes — two different ways to come at the questions of your own existence and understand who you are:<ol><li>“reflective self-definition” &</li><li>“coherent being.”</li></ol>

What Is The Existential Mode

Let’s just assume that you understand that you’re not defined by your reflection in the physical mirror, or at best that’s a limited definition of “me”.Well… it turns out that there are other kinds of mirrors:<ul><li>Not the physical glass kind, though — there are various ways in which the human mind fabricates mirrors as it goes along.</li><li>These are cognitive, psychological, perspective-switching processes in which the mind uses its experience, concepts, memories, and interpretive plumbing in a particular way to try to get a view of “the self.”</li></ul>

Reflective self-definition

Even without other people, the mind keeps putting up mirrors.

The reflective self-definition that is generated automatically by ancient psychological processes, the machine that seems to want to turn everything into “it’s about me” in some way. That’s the first kind of identity or the first existential mode: reflective, in that there’s some kind of mirror — physical or abstract, and self-defining in that the process yields a semi-stable definition or concept of what “I” refers to.

The Ego

Imagine that you’re playing a board game like Monopoly.The game is a given — something we are born into — and our existence is framed such that it’s only meaningful in the context of the game’s rules and elements and processes.That’s how the ego relates to life: “life is a given, and I am an object born into that given environment.”The model of reality is like the Monopoly game — our “knowledge of what things mean”, including our own existence.

Coherent being

We sleep-walked through the process which built the gameboard that gives meaning to our existence as a cannon or scotty dog or ship.

What if someone becomes aware of their own production of the meaning that gives them their identity? You’d be on the way to being the owner of the game, because naturally the author is the owner… the one who put the walls up owns the room they live in.People sense that being the owner of the gameboard means that they have vast freedom and are not bound by the limitations of the ego and so sometimes they get carried away and don’t understand the nature of their freedom or “awakening”, and they make up nonsensical metaphysics and “New Age” beliefs and so on. Garbage-think, it should be called.

Owner Of The Game 

You really are “a thing in a given context”: your life is bound to your body and you will die and that’s the end of any useful meaning of “you”.If we understand that the Monopoly game metaphor does not refer to the physical universe, it refers to the “realm of meaning” which gives the self its context, then we’re back on solid ground and we’re not trying to violate the laws of nature.Reality is what it is. We create the meaning, and being unaware of our own role in that we “see ourselves” reflected in the meanings that we have assigned to our experience and model of objective reality.

Useful Meaning Of You

When you only know yourself by reflective self-definition, and don’t appreciate the vast possibilities and natural freedom that comes from being the owner or source of the gameboard, you’re stuck.

Trap of the ego

To be the owner is truly being, and to understand and sustain that relationship to your own existence is where the “coherent” bit comes in: <ul><li>like a candle that can make its own wax, owning yourself as the source of meaning in your life empowers you to light it up as you see fit, without worrying about landing on Boardwalk and being wiped out by the given game.</li></ul>

Be The Owner

Found this topic fascinating. All ideas belong to Les Matheson. He is the author that inspired me. 

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Habits

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Mental Health

Getting rid of my ego

In my kingdom, you have to run as fast as you can just to stay in the same place.

The body must function like a well rehearsed orchestra. Noise and chaos ensues if each system does not play its role at precisely the right time. Erratic habits of sleeping and eating can interfere with this function.Routine is necessary. Stable and reliable habits must be adopted.Looking at children as an example, those with stable sleeping and eating schedules are delightful and comical and playful, on the other hand those with no stability can be horrible and whiny and nasty to say the least.

Malfunction

Jordan B Peterson initially asks his clinical clients about their sleep. Do they wake up in the morning everyday at approx the same time the typical person wakes up? If the answer is no, fixing that is the first recommendation. Waking up at the same hour every day consistently is a necessity.If the sufferer of anxiety and depression has an unpredictable daily routine, they must regulate this in order to allow for successful treatment.

Sleep Routine

The next point to consider is breakfast. Jordan B Peterson recommends a fat and protein heavy breakfast as soon as possible upon waking up. No simple carbohydrates and no sugars (as they are digested rapidly and produce a blood-sugar spike and rapid dip).

Breakfast

Attend carefully to your posture. Put your desires forward as if you have a right to them.Walk tall and gaze forthrightly ahead. Dare to be dangerous.Encourage the serotonin to flow plentiful through the neural pathways desperate for its calming influence.People, including yourself, will start assuming that you are competent and able (or atleast they will not immediately assume the reverse).Emboldened by the positive responses you recieve, you will become less anxious.

Stand up straight with your shoulders back.

Hiding from others also means suppressing and hiding potentialities of the unrealised self.If you won't reveal yourself to others, then you cannot reveal yourself to yourself. You suppress who you are. So much of what you could be will never be forced by necessity to come forward.When you explore boldly, when you voluntarily confront the unknown, you gather information and build your renewed self out of that information.

Manipulating The World

Research has discovered that new genes in the central nervous system turn themselves on when an organism is placed (or places itself) in a new situation.These genes code for new proteins. These proteins are the building blocks for new structures in the brain.You have to say something, go somewhere and do things to get turned on. And if not.. you remain incomplete, and life is too hard for anyone incomplete.

Explore

When the wakening occurs and the once naive person recognizes in themselves the seeds of evil and monstrosity, and see themselves as dangerous (at least potentially) their fear decreases.They develop more self respect.

Rising Up 

1. Do not carelessly denigrate social institutions or creative achievement.2. Imagine who you could be and then aim single-mindedly at that.3. Do not hide unwanted things in the fog.4. Notice that opportunity lurks where responsibility has been abdicated.5. Do not do what you hate.6. Abandon ideology.

7. Work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens.8. Try to make one room in your home as beautiful as possible.9.If old memories still upset you, write them down carefully and completely.10. Plan and work diligently to maintain the romance in your relationship.11. Do not allow yourself to become resentful, deceitful, or arrogant.12. Be grateful in spite of your suffering.

"What does everyone in the modern world need to know? [The author's] answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research. [The author discusses] discussing discipline, freedom, adventure and responsibility, distilling the world's wisdom into 12 practical and profound rules for life"--

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Productivity

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER  #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research. Humorous, surprising and informative, Dr. Peterson tells us why skateboarding boys and girls must be left alone, what terrible fate awaits those who criticize too easily, and why you should always pet a cat when you meet one on the street. What does the nervous system of the lowly lobster have to tell us about standing up straight (with our shoulders back) and about success in life? Why did ancient Egyptians worship the capacity to pay careful attention as the highest of gods? What dreadful paths do people tread when they become resentful, arrogant and vengeful? Dr. Peterson journeys broadly, discussing discipline, freedom, adventure and responsibility, distilling the world's wisdom into 12 practical and profound rules for life. 12 Rules for Life shatters the modern commonplaces of science, faith and human nature, while transforming and ennobling the mind and spirit of its readers.

Jordan Bernt Peterson is a Canadian psychologist, author, and media commentator. He began to receive widespread attention in the late 2010s for his views on cultural and political issues, often described as conservative. Peterson has described himself as a classic British liberal and a traditionalist.

Jordan B. Peterson

12 Rules for Life

Many of them believe that the brain is the cause of consciousness, so when the brain dies, consciousness disappears, is that true or what ❓We will see axiomatically (absolute truth).

Brain & Awareness

The first step is to make sure that:📌 Changes in the brain are the cause for changes in consciousness as the effect of the cause (brain)<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">👉 This asserts: changes in the brain lead to changes in consciousness</li></ul>

Brain as The Cause of Consciousness

The question is whether changes in consciousness can change the state in the brain ❓<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Assumed, consciousness does not allow changes in the brain</li></ul>In simple terms, can "the brain as the cause of the effect (namely consciousness)", change its position to "consciousness as a cause for changes in conditions in the brain" ❓<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">👉 This does not mean that it violates logic, but rather it reveals an unknown viewpoint of axiomatic reasoning</li></ul>

Causality In Both Direction

📍In fact, meditation can reduce the structure of the amygdala in the brain📍Involvement of consciousness in daily activities, through conscious control, is able to change the structure of neurons in the brainHere it asserts that consciousness is capable of directly (meditation) and indirectly (through activity), having a position as a determining point (cause) for changes in the structure of the brain.

Interchangeable Causality

The status eventually needs to be updated that turns out to be:📍The brain is the cause for the alteration of consciousness as a result<ul><li>👉 The brain is the cause of altered states of consciousness</li></ul>📍Awareness can also act as a cause for changes in brain state as the effect<ul><li>👉 Consciousness is the cause of the changing inside the brain</li></ul>

🧩  If the two things, one to another, are alternately cause and effect on each other, then both are the effect of another other than the two things themselves.

Axiom

True relation in between brain & consciousness

Many of them believe that the brain is the cause of consciousness, so when the brain dies, consciousness disappears, is that true or what ❓ 📌 Changes in the brain are the cause for changes in…

1. Improve activity of the piece2. Move with a plan

Improve your worst pieces

1. The bishop pair2. good knight versus bad bishop3. better pawn structure (fewer pawn islands, no doubled, isolated or backwards pawns)4. more space5. control of open files or outposts, weak squares or colour complexes which can be exploited.

Accumulate small advantages

1. prevent an opponent’s idea.2. overprotecting material so our pieces can move freely.3. reducing the scope or impact of opposing pieces

Prophylaxis

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Strategy

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Entertainment

Finding Moves in the Middlegame

Tea started as a medicine and ended up being a drink.In China in VIII, tea emerged as one of the most educated entertainments.Teaism originated in Japan and is the cult for the adoration of beauty in cotidianity, inculcating purity and harmony. It is a cult to the imperfect, it's an aim of achieving an impossible along the vast inmensity of impossibles thorughout life.Philosophy surrounding tea is not just aesthetic, it also expresses oriental values on:<ul><li>Ethic and Religion</li><li>Point of view of human being and nature</li><li>Hygiene</li><li>Economy</li><li>Moral geometry</li><li>Spirit of democracy</li></ul>

The cup of humanity

Teaism originated in Japan and is the cult for the adoration of beauty in cotidianity, inculcating purity and harmony.It is a cult to the imperfect, it's an aim of achieving an impossible along the vast inmensity of impossibles thorughout life.

Teaism

Discover the idea of Teaism, captured in the classical work The Book of Tea.

Written in English by a Japanese scholar in 1906, ""The Book of Tea"" is an elegant attempt to explain the philosophy of the Japanese Tea Ceremony, with its Taoist and Zen Buddhist roots, to a Western audience in clear and simple terms. One of the most widely-read English works about Japan, it had a profound influence on western undertsanding of East Asian tradition.

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Travel

Kakuzo Okakura

The Book of Tea

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Better decisions are done by balancing quantitative vs qualitative.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">An obsession with shareholder value has brought capitalism and society to the brink.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Work and society demand a different approach: “active inquiry.”</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Active inquiry – deliberate thinking, talking and creating – is the humans guide.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Active inquiry nurtures psychological safety and teams. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Considered thinking demands discipline and focus.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">When organizations wake up to the benefits of active inquiry, their decisions lead to better financial results.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Conversations in active inquiry enable the collaboration humanity desperately needs.</li></ul>

Think Talk Create

A brilliant counter-narrative for restoring humanity to the bottom-line, numbers-obsessed culture of the modern, 21st century workplace. In a time of unusual stress, with a pandemic raging and economic insecurity and dislocation increasing, we need to rediscover the values that make us human, that give us a sense of meaning in order to increase our potential for productivity and success. What stands in the way, however, is a professional culture where human connectedness is a lost art: the frenzied numbers-obsessed, bottom-line thinking, the "scratch and claw" workplace, and organizations where the boss can literally be an algorithm. Through moving stories and a modern spin on the ancient framework of Socratic dialogue, David Brendel and Ryan Stelzer show how to move forward and build workplaces fit for humans through what uniquely defines us as human beings: our ability to think, talk, and create. By thinking carefully about a challenge, engaging peers in dialogue via open-ended questioning, and building a strategy collaboratively. Think Talk Create enables us to cultivate trust and define collective values, seemingly "soft" attributes that nonetheless markedly increase innovation and, ultimately, financial performance. Think: Step back, slow down, avoid impulsive, short-sighted decision making. Talk: Ask non-judgmental, open ended questions, with your mind as a blank slate, pursuing the problem like an empirical scientist or a judge presiding in court. Create: Bring something new and meaningful into play, a novel solution to a pesky problem that can move the world in surprising, positive directions.

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Communication

A brilliant counter-narrative for restoring humanity to the bottom-line, numbers-obsessed culture of the modern, 21st century workplace. In a time of unusual stress, with a pandemic raging and economic insecurity and dislocation increasing, we need to rediscover the values that make us human, that give us a sense of meaning in order to increase our potential for productivity and success. What stands in the way, however, is a professional culture where human connectedness is a lost art: the frenzied numbers-obsessed, bottom-line thinking, the "scratch and claw" workplace, and organizations where the boss can literally be an algorithm.     Through moving stories and a modern spin on the ancient framework of Socratic dialogue, David Brendel and Ryan Stelzer show how to move forward and build workplaces fit for humans through what uniquely defines us as human beings: our ability to think, talk, and create.   By thinking carefully about a challenge, engaging peers in dialogue via open-ended questioning, and building a strategy collaboratively. Think Talk Create enables us to cultivate trust and define collective values, seemingly "soft" attributes that nonetheless markedly increase innovation and, ultimately, financial performance.   Think: Step back, slow down, avoid impulsive, short-sighted decision making.   Talk: Ask non-judgmental, open ended questions, with your mind as a blank slate, pursuing the problem like an empirical scientist or a judge presiding in court.   Create: Bring something new and meaningful into play, a novel solution to a pesky problem that can move the world in surprising, positive directions.

David Brendel

Ryan Stelzer

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