The metaverse, in the most simplest terms is a virtual universe where there are no limits. Metaverse will be a 4-D version of the present internet. It can be thought of as being inside the internet and visualising and experiencing everything the world wide web. It can be thought of as a network of worlds with different things to offer.Virtual reality allows the Metaverse to be whatever we want it to be, with the only limits being our imagination.

What is the Metaverse?

The metaverse will be so much more than video games – digital identifications, remote work, buying and selling property – whatever you can imagine, the metaverse will have it.It is going to be the next milestone of the internet, being a converging point of the physical, augmented and virtual reality in one shared space, online.

The idea of a technological world where anything can be possible was first introduced in the 1992 science fiction novel , “Snow Crash” by Neil Stephenson which described a virtual reality and the term ‘metaverse’ was first coined.

How did Metaverse come around?

The 2011 book, “Ready Player One” further promoted the idea of a virtual world where you can be anyone, do anything and go anywhere irrespective of who you are in the real world.The movie based on the book starring Tye Sheridan and Olivia Cooke in the lead roles popularized the concept of virtual reality and introduced it as the ‘OASIS’, and gave every young mind watching it a sneak peek into what the metaverse could be like in the future.

“People come to the OASIS for all the things they can do, but they stay for all the things they can be.”

Virtual reality will have (and even has) gadgets lined up for the best experience of the metaverse, where the creators will provide the most optimum experience of the virtual world. <ul><li>Today, head mounted display and hand controllers which influence sight, hearing and a limited amount of touch are a basic to VR.</li><li>From books and movies an idea which sits into our mind is that bodysuits and omnidirectional treadmills will become a VR necessity in the future allowing the body to move about in a virtual space just like one does in the real world.</li></ul>

How can we experience the metaverse?

<ul><li>Advanced forms of VR will most probably make use of neurohaptics and neurotech, which uses signals from the brain to replicate a virtual environment and perform certain actions without any user interface.</li></ul>

The metaverse carries the potential to be one of the biggest and impactful technological development of the future. This virtual reality will allow infinite simulations to create anything we want, be anyone, do anything – whatever the mind desires, it can create.It doesn’t matter what you want, you can do it in this virtual space – buying virtual and real world objects (not to mention buying real world objects in the virtual world) to learning any skill you want, doing real world jobs in your virtual world desk/office and earning metaverse cryptocurrency and even using it in the real world.

Why the metaverse matters

Not only is the metaverse going to be a huge life changer for individuals, businesses and industries will also have mega changes thanks to the metaverse.Companies will be creating products and services based on the consumers in the metaverse and will have entire teams and divisions just for buying/selling and building products in the virtual reality or for the real world to aid the virtual reality.Some specialists even go so far as saying that the metaverse might be more transformative to the industries than the internet and could be the biggest market opportunity of the next few decades.

Metaverse For Companies 

Students of the future will have virtual reality schools and universities and even jobs all dedicated to the metaverse. Kids as young as 14-15 years of age will be building the world and creating new and better faces of the virtual reality.

Metaverse For Next-gen Students 

The metaverse is also very likely to have a big impact on the economy and even the governments of countries across the globe.According to some sources, the metaverse could most probably add close to $3 trillion to the global GDP (with consistent evolution) within a decade.

Metaverse And The Economy 

Virtual reality will also completely change the politics game. As it can be already seen with politicians all around the world promoting their campaigns and reaching out to their people through social networking and some even highlighting important issues and making positive change through it.With the metaverse, this could go one step further. From buying digital merch to show support to candidates to vKirtual embassies and even virtual ministries, the metaverse is sure to bring change and keep many people on their toes when it comes to being efficient and flawless.

Metaverse And Politics 

No. We really can’t expect the metaverse to be a flawless piece of human innovation which will immediately lead us to a perfect world with greatness and happiness.As it has been made clear with all other forms of technology, everything has potential to be good and bad. The sci-fi depiction in Ready Player One does point out that as the virtual world keeps getting bigger and better, the real world also crumbles in some ways.

Is the metaverse really all that good?

The rise of metaverse and virtual reality brings out some concerns which do need to be discussed and thought of, the biggest question being – will we lose touch with reality?As it is very obvious with smartphones – a major part of the population being addicted to screens and losing touch with their friends and family, the idea of having a perfect virtual world at everyone’s fingertips definitely raises some concerns when it comes to managing real world relationships and building healthy lives for the consumers.

The second most asked question, also one to be very concerning is – who will ‘own’ the metaverse and how does that change the lives of the people – in the real world and the virtual world? Let’s accept it, the fight for power is something that has been with us since the beginning of time and the metaverse will not be any different. So how will we know who actually controls the metaverse? Who will be the law makers and protectors? How will our real world identities change with the virtual world? All questions that require answers.

 With the ever consistent change in the world including, and especially technology, its time to set our eyes on the Metaverse and take a closer look at what the future has in store for us. 

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Personal Development

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Science Fiction

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Technology & The Future

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Communication

On The Metaverse (Part 1)

To be creative, in the most simplest sense, means to use one’s imagination to create something. When we speak of ‘creating something’ it is often thought as creating something new and original, something that has never been made, something truly mind boggling and innovative. While all this might be true in some instances, it is not true for all creatives out there. Most creative ideas are about making new connections between old ideas in order to creating something different.

What does it mean to be creative?

Creativity is about using old methods in newer ways to find solutions for problems or making things using new connections between old ideas.With the ever consistent change in reality, new and improvised creative ideas are more and more welcome and we tend to see a lot of these in mainstream media too. All those ‘gadgets’ and ‘hacks’ we see around us that are bound to make life easier are all a result of somebody’s creative thoughts.

It is often said that creative people are born as such and that it us something inherited. While it may hold true , there is a certain level of creativity that everyone is born with, it just needs the right push to come out fierce and strong. For each individual to show off their creative side all they need is the right guidance and the proper environment to raise that creativity to reach their true creative potential. Know that almost everybody’s hidden creative side can be pulled out to shine in it’s own unique ways and that creativity is different for all.

What do I need to be creative?

Scientifically speaking, there are a few cognitive skills that you’ll need to develop in order to have the most efficient creative thinking.<ul><li>The ability to generate new ideas – be it original or from combining old ideas to create something better.</li><li>The ability to retain things in memory and easily go back to things in memory. To reach back to stored or old information – at the right place and time.</li><li>The ability to interpret ideas from one’s own experiences and associations by being attentive and present in each moment.</li></ul>

<ul><li>with the everyday stresses and troubles of life creativity is like a gateway to mini paradise. A place where you can be away from your problems and create things that make you happy. It allows one to step away from existing train of thought, do something different and come back to the problem with a clear head.</li><li>creativity allows one to look within themselves – it provides a window to peek within ourselves and find out exactly what we want and don’t want in life. It’s the best way to learn ourselves and develop a better relationship with ourselves.</li></ul>

Why do I need to be creative? 

1) stop judging your own creative ideas. Give yourself the permission to do what you love and laugh off the mistakes you make along the way. 2) instead of simply brainstorming, thinking and planning your creative visions, actually make something! Put the fear of uncertainty behind you and get to work – create! 3) give yourself enough time to create something, but stick to a schedule. Letting yourself too much time for something will only lead to procrastination and delay. 4) churn out as many ideas as you can. It doesn’t matter if they’re good or bad – think of new things and don’t hesitate to put it out. Remember, the best ideas often hide between the most mediocre ones. 5) put your ideas out infront of people. It may feel daunting and scary to take that stand but showing your work infront of people holds you accountable for it and helps gain new perspective.

1) stop judging your own creative ideas. Give yourself the permission to do what you love and laugh off the mistakes you make along the way.2) instead of simply brainstorming, thinking and planning your creative visions, actually make something! Put the fear of uncertainty behind you and get to work – create!3) give yourself enough time to create something, but stick to a schedule. Letting yourself too much time for something will only lead to procrastination and delay.

How To Be Creative 

4) churn out as many ideas as you can. It doesn’t matter if they’re good or bad – think of new things and don’t hesitate to put it out. Remember, the best ideas often hide between the most mediocre ones.5) put your ideas out infront of people. It may feel daunting and scary to take that stand but showing your work infront of people holds you accountable for it and helps gain new perspective.

You won’t always get hit by a lightning bolt and get the Eureka moment that will lead to crazy breakthroughs. Sometimes inspiration won’t hit you in the most magnificent ways, instead, it can be something as small as a ladybug on a blade of grass. You need to be able to have a broad mindset and see things differently.

Inspiration 

Creativity is not something you can randomly pick up whenever you want and drop whenever you feel like. To excel at creativity and reaching to your level best, you need to be consistent. Creativity is about constantly coming up with new ideas, improvising and re- building things. To reach a “flow” state in creativity you will have to be consistent.

Getting In Flow

Creativity requires the best minds and the best of minds. While being a creative does mean that collaborating with the best minds around you is essential, allowing the best of your own mind to come forward is also of equal importance. Bringing out the best in you will require solitude and being alone with your own thoughts and ideas. Remember, the best creative minds tend to be introverts and spend their time with themselves while also valuing the response and ideas from the people around them.

Solo Or Team

“Creativity involves breaking out of expected patterns in order to look at things in a different way.”

Bending rules and going outside the box, seeing things in ways never seen before, looking within yourself and at the world around. Time to shine some light on creativity.. 

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Problem Solving

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Creativity

On Creativity - Love.Peace.Happiness.

Learning new things has become a skill everyone has to develop in order to thrive in the mordern world where change is an everyday occurance. In order to handle this everyday change, we need to be able to learn and unlearn just as rapidly.Every field out there is constantly changing, everything is becoming bigger and better and to keep up with the changes we have to be able to develop ourselves in such a way that we thrive, and that can only be by having the habit of learning (all the time!)

According to the book by Scott H Young, “Ultralearning is a strategy for aggressive, self-directed learning.” Simply speaking, it is a way of dealing with the ever changing world by taking the power of effective learning into your own hands.It’s about taking decisions concerning the idea of learning, more so, the ‘what’, ‘why’ and ‘how’ of learning. Ultralearning tends to have unusual steps/methods for the most effective learning, and these “ultralearners” are those who make/search for some of these bizarre steps for maximum learning efficiency.

What is ultralearning?

<ul><li>Start by learning the ‘how’ of learning. To put it simply, understand how you want to learn the new skill.</li><li>Practice makes perfect, so try to implement what you’re learning in everyday life.</li><li>Your comfort zone is your biggest enemy. Step out of it when it comes to learning new things.</li><li>Feedback from outside can be your biggest help. Learn to take criticism and suggestions.</li><li>Dissolve difficult and complex tasks into smaller simpler tasks.</li><li>Constantly testing your knowledge helps in making an assessment of your own skills and changes you need to make.</li><li>Explore different concepts and ideas.</li></ul>

Ultralearning aims to highlight some of these core points

Some of the work that we wish to pursue can be a little too difficult, making it easier for other things to distract us, or simply seem like a “better” use of our time. That’s when the idea of breaking complex tasks into simpler task comes into play. When you try to do something complex it’s difficult for your brain to take in all the new and complex information. Breaking a difficult task/skill into smaller, more manageable chunks allows our mind to accept and process information much more easily and effectively.

Distractions - Your Work

It’s obvious enough, the things in and around your surroundings hold the power to grab your attention and distract you from the work right infront of you. Surrounding yourself with a “learner friendly” environment is essential to make the most out of your learning time. To test out how well a work area is for you, try learning something for a set amount of time, during that timespan keep track of how many times you get distracted by something and at the end of the timespan test yourself to see how much of the information you were able to retain. Try it with a few possible options.

Distractions - Your Environment 

The biggest distractor! If you feel constantly distracted, without it being your environment or any other external medium, it might be that it’s all internal! The negative emotions – depressive, angry thoughts, the whirlwind of thoughts travelling in your head, the daydreamings, the million notes going through your mind – it all plays a big role in messing up with your ability to learn and have a clear head for recalling information you’ve already learnt.

Distractions - Your Mind

Interleaving is another skill that people who are forever learning swear by, especially while learning something new. It is all about spacing out the learning process over a long period of time, randomising the information and frequent active recalling of past information that has been already learnt. It allows the brain to hold focus for longer periods of time and forces you to adjust yourself to probelm solving in every step, allowing the information to be stored as a long term memory rather than passively learning and re-learning the same thing with no positive result.

What is Interleaving?

<ol><li>To learn a concept completely, it’s important to understand it fully. And to understand something thoroughly visualising it plays a very big role.</li><li>Practicing everything you learn – be it in the form of tests or quizzes or even using it in real life situations helps fixing something to your mind.</li><li>Whenever you face roadblocks, take a break. Overly obsessing over a particular topic might not always help solve it, instead, taking a break and looking at the problem from a different angle can help get a better perspective.</li></ol>

A few final tips for all the hungry learners

4. Plenty of sleep is always a key aspect of learning. Sleep not only affects your recall and memory, it also helps your mind calm down and helps functioning of your creative side.5. Self motivation is the most important aspect of learning something while being happy. When you learn something that you actually love and have full interest in, you feel motivated to be the best at it.

In the modern world where being aware of changes around us is expected from everyone, the skill of learning is gaining more and more attention. So let's learn about learning. 

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Health

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Learning & Education

About Learning - Love.Peace.Happiness.

I’ve spoken about being a major procrastinator many times, but it’s time to go a little deeper into it and learn more. (If you’re a procrastinator like me and you’re reading this, chances are you’re procrastinating something right now, think about what it is.)

A Little More On Procrastination

To procrastinate means to delay something that needs to be done as soon as possible and actively finding ‘better’ things to do rather than doing the things that need to be done.It’s knowing fully well, the consequences of delaying something yet doing it only to face trouble at the end – be it by rushing through work or a project or having to listen to long lectures from seniors. Procrastinators are these exact people!

What does it mean to be a procrastinator?

We tend to put everything till the very last moment knowing fully well the negative outcomes of it yet focusing our attention towards things that are less attention demanding and something that can distance us from the work that needs to be done in the present.Procrastinators tend to have a much more optimistic idea of time and tend to push everything for later thinking they’ll ‘manage’ everything just fine. (Which is mostly just putting their luck to the test)

(According to so many different sources) It is commonly said that procrastinators only procrastinate to distract themselves from their fears of failure or inability to commit themselves to a particular work or continuously do it for a long span of time.They tend to procrastinate only to have more control over their emotions.According to some studies, procrastinators don’t really have control over their habit of procrastination, for them it is aresponse behaviour towards extreme authoritarian lifestyle one has had in the past or even in the present.

But then why is it that people tend to procrastinate?

According to some other studies, procrastinators procrastinate because they tend to prefer the “now” and value how they spend it instead of planning or worrying about the future. They prefer having fun and enjoying the present rather than waiting for it in the future.Some studies also claim that most of the procrastination done by the average person is unconscious and can probably be avoided if people simply focus more on their everyday life and be more organized.

There is also the final group of people that think the people who procrastinate do so because they lack the motivation to actually work and are unaware of the powers of their own emotions – of the present and the future and the role these emotions can play in getting the motivation they need for getting things done.

But what is the actual reason for procrastination? Why is it that we feel so much better just pushing things to the side and instead focusing our attention to less important, more fun tasks? The answer to this could be absolutely anything – it would differ from individual to individual, you will just have to look within yourself for this one.

-> The first and maybe most important thing is to embrace procrastination as a part of yourself. Know that you can't change everything about yourself, so instead of finding ways to change it and look for ways that you can be yourself

How To Use Procrastination Better 

1) make a to do list - preferably with more easier tasks at first and the tasks getting progressively difficult.2) making a mental (or physical) note of each thing you have to do and alloting time to it based on how long it will take you to do that specific task, and if you can, allot yourself some extra time just incase.3) use deadlines to your advantage - while alloting yourself time to work on something keep the deadline in mind and allot yourself a timeline which ends earlier.

A few steps to consider before saying "Just do it" are

4) create "punishments" for yourself for work not done (no, don't go beating yourself with a lamp like Dobby), make the punishments something that will test your self control, for example, something like no sugar for a whole week or not going on social media for a week. 5) control the distractions around you - as much as possible. It isn't easy to turn everything off and live like a monk, and it probably isn't the most wise thing for many people, but try to limit the distractions around you and try to hold yourself accountable for the things around you.

-> When setting up to get into the work zone know that it takes time to get into the rhythm of work and different types of tasks tend to have a different rhythm to it. So when you place work for yourself, try to group out similar tasks together to stay within the similar rhythm and not having to switch your mind from one type to another type of task.

-> When you get into the "Just do it" mindset, remember that it won't necessarily last for hours. So whenever possible try to write down all the things you need to get done and the possibile steps to do it and the things to keep in mind - this will be your blueprint. So the next time you feel even the smallest bit of energy, pass a glance at this blueprint and that will give you the idea and motivation to finish the task at hand.

-> Speaking of motivation - know that simply having an idea in your mind or a goal ahead of you won't always motivate you to stop slacking and start working. Sure, it does help to have a visual idea of what you're working towards, but sometimes feeling instead of simply seeing can be more help. -> Lastly, learn that overcoming procrastination and using your bad habits for your own advantage will take some time and a lot of effort and relapsing back can be completely normal but you need to be able to overcome those hurdles and not fall back.

Procrastination is a huge part of my life as I'm sure it is of many others as well, so maybe it's time that we look a little more deeper into the strange world of procrastinators and procrastination. 

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Productivity

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Psychology

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Time Management

In today’s time, we as a society have glorified the idea of being ‘busy ‘. People that are seen constantly stressed, buried in their work are viewed as more accomplished than someone not swamped by work and worry. Today’s hustle cultre views these so called ‘hard-workers ‘ as the image of the ‘perfect employee ‘ and holds this standard of being busy on a pedestal.

No, it’s hard to say that everything about hustle cultre or being busy is bad. But it’s definitely a point to note that these do glorify the idea of constantly being on the go and working and have even made it the norm for today’s generation to constantly be working and measuring their own self worth by how much they’ve accomplished.

Is being busy actually bad?

Think about it, how many times have you criticized yourself because you didn’t do ‘enough work ‘ or you didn’t ‘work harder ‘?How many times have you actually been happy on a day off and been glad that you took care of yourself?According to the standards we’ve created for ourselves, anyone who isn’t busy and doesn’t spend every second immersed in work simply doesn’t stand up to these standards and is just termed as ‘not hard working ‘ or simply ‘lazy ‘.This outlook of society makes us judge our own self worth by the amount of work we do and the labels society puts on us.

* Putting Labels On Ourselves 

Glorifying the idea of always being busy tends to make us much more about self and can, in a sense, make our thoughts and actions even more selfish. We tend to get more stuck in our own little world excessively brooding about our own work and our own problems which obviously have a negative strike to our mental health but also end up in us neglecting close friends and family.Cancelling plans last minute, not being present for special occasions and being missing from important moments tends to become ‘normal ‘ for busy people.

* Busyness Affects Our Relationships 

The current idea of busyness doesn’t necessarily put in ‘quality of work’ as an important factor, instead, ‘quantity of work’ becomes the deciding factor. When we place priorities in the wrong areas it does end up being counter-productive and instead of actually getting things done we might only be wasting precious time.It’s necessary to keep track of how and what you spend your time. Know if the time you spend on doing something is actually for something ‘productive ‘ or is it just being busy.

* Quality Over Quantity Or Quantity Over Quality? 

Being ‘busy ‘ isn’t something you’re forced to do, it’s a life choice – something you make and continue.Know that being efficient isn’t about the number of hours you spend doing something that may or may not have a positive outcome. Efficiency is about the number of positive results you get on doing things. Think about the things you do on a daily basis that you think are ‘productive ‘ – does it actually give outcomes that help you grow? Does it help with things you’re struggling with/find difficult?

How to know if you’re actually productive or just busy?

Being busy is just about passing time doing things that seem productive,while actually, using time for things that support growth is real productivity.Answering emails is one such task that might seem and feel productive but it has more cons to pros. It doesn’t matter how many times a day you check your email, you can always expect more to be there eventually. It always makes you feel productive but in reality it just gives you that extra stress that hampers with actual productivity. It’s often advised to check your emails only once or twice a day to allow some actual productivity instead of sp<warningtag>ending hours each day in ‘pseudo-productivity ‘.</warningtag>

Being busy is just about passing time doing things that seem productive,while actually, using time for things that support growth is real productivity.Answering emails is one such task that might seem and feel productive but it has more cons to pros. It always makes you feel productive but in reality it just gives you that extra stress that hampers with actual productivity.It’s often advised to check your emails only once or twice a day to allow some actual productivity instead of spending hours each day in ‘pseudo-productivity

* Being Productive Or Pseudo-productive 

When we’re constantly under stress and lose work-life balance (which is a consequence of hustle cultre) we tend to mess with our attention span, and the constant pressure from work and personal life harms the cognitive bandwidth.Even though having narrow cognitive bandwidth might help you hyperfocus on something, it also has its cons – popularly termed as Tunneling.In the most simple terms, tunneling is being extra focused on things that are right infront of us that may not be so productive, which is caused by extreme stress in our lives.

But why is it that we fixate ourselves in pseudo-productive work?

A definite point of importance is that when we become so fixated in our own lives doing ‘productive’ work, we tend to have less time for things that actually matter, like our own physical and mental health. We tend to have less time for decisions that affect us, instead we make impulsive decisions because taking cautious, calculative steps isn’t an option anymore.

* Pseudo-productive Work Affects Our Health 

• It might make us feel important to be constantly busy and get that validation from society. But remember that the same busyness has long term effects on your health.These long hours of stress and lack of sleep and completely ignoring self-health can lead to problems like headaches, insomnia, fatigue, seizures, etc. When you make changes in busyness, you will only have positive changes in your physical and mental health and will improve relationships with people you’ve been pushing away.

So how can we get rid of busyness and make time for things that actually matter?

• Take a deep dive into the work you’re always busy doing – then think if spending all that time and resources is actually a wise decision. Spend time doing things that you actually find valuable – does it feel productive?• Learn to ignore the voices, views and opinions of society that promotes hustle cultre and being busy. Keep in mind the actual goal you have, that which you strive for. (I know it’s so much more easier said than done, but give it a shot!) Challenge the idea of being busy and go for what you believe you want to do.

• Understand the importance of saying no to things that don’t serve purpose to your life, instead, spend that time on things that drive you and things you find yourself excited to do.• Sometimes you can find true satisfaction in doing less. You could do hundreds of tasks a day but they won’t necessarily bring you happiness, but even doing one task that drives you can be the source of your happiness.• Encourage yourself and people around you to get the image of being busy out of their mind and instead set being productive as the idealistic mindset.

The idea od being busy has become glorified to an unhealthy extent, maybe it's time to take a step back and think of not always being busy, but being efficient. 

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Mental Health

Being Busy Is Good?

The 21st century has been the time of great discoveries, inventions and learning. With all this learning comes even more new things and concepts that might seem strange to some, but it is absolutely necessary for us to learn these to move forward. One such concept is “Unlearning”.

<ul><li>When you remove something from your memory, you lose it and never think about it again and eventually it fades away from your mind leaving space for new, important information – that is unlearning.</li><li>Living in today’s day and age, it is a necessary skill to have.</li></ul>

What is unlearning?

<ul><li>Unlearning old activities/skills that once seemed useful and productive and replacing it with skills much more valuable, new skills that can help you get ahead and take your community forward – this is a very important skill, one which might seem really difficult (and even is, if we’re being honest) but is necessary nonetheless.</li></ul>

<ul><li>People need to develop unlearning to move forward and carry society forward side by side, to have better work ethic and overall have a new, fresh outlook towards all aspects of life.</li><li>The concept of unlearning forces the mind to constantly learn, re-learn and discard old learnings ; keeping the mind fresh, agile and shar</li></ul>

Why is unlearning necessary ?

<ul><li>It isn’t necessarily important that everything you learnt or the skills you developed in the past have to be useful to you in the present or in the foreseeable future.</li><li>Unlearning is all about removing the unimportant/useless skills/information from your mind and clearing up space for much more productive and useful things.</li><li>There is also a high chance that whatever you re-learn isn’t the complete opposite of what you had previously learnt, instead, it could just be a modification of the old information/skills, morphed to suit you better.</li></ul>

Importance Of learning For Your Skills

<ul><li>If you’re someone who likes to constantly change things up, especially when it comes to professions and/or hobbies or if you’re simply looking into jobs, unlearning can be a great skill to have as many new, up-and-coming businesses and workspaces prefer having employees who can manage many skills and are easily adaptable to new and sudden changes.</li><li>Someone who is constantly unlearning and developing themselves is seen as a risk taker and someone who isn’t afraid to make changes, no matter how sudden or random they seem, which is another great impression to keep of yourself.</li></ul>

Importance Of Unlearning For Your Job

1) seeking new knowledgeWhen you make the decision to develop unlearning in your skill set, it would mean you have found previous knowledge/skills inadequate to help you hustle through some important tasks and projects or maybe you simply wish to make room in your head for things that align with your present day priorities.Only when you gain all that new knowledge will you be able to replace the old information with it or add more to your skill sets. So make it a point to constantly read and surf the net on subjects that you find interesting and constantly update yourself on new changes .

How to develop unlearning ?

Another way to gather more information and learning more .Build the habit of going outside of your social circle and meet new people and try to start intelligent, insightful conversations.Try to talk to people having the same interests as you to learn more about your present day interests and priorities, but if you’re trying to learn new skills or trying to find even more skills, talk to people having complete different interests and educate yourself about their field of work and interests.

2) talking to more people 

It is very easy to be in our own bubble of comfort and enjoy the safety of everything that we know. But to develop unlearning, one must venture out of this comfort zone .If you can, travel and experience different places, cultures and people. Or simply make bold choices in life, choices you may not make in the safety and security of your comfort zone. Go beyond what feels normal and ‘okay’, go for what makes your heart race with excitement.

3) experiment in life . 

When you experience new people and places, you clear your head of useless clutter in your mind. It’s the best thing because relearning allows you to use those new experiences and process them in your mind to update your existing knowledge about something or learn new things and improve yourself.At the same time, it’s difficult. You need to be open to new and different perspectives and opinions and learn to accept ideas and concepts that go against your general/old understanding.It’s also difficult to create an environment, both physically and mentally, that allows easy relearning.

4) relearning

5) When you’re able to reach a place where you’ve discarded information not useful for you and updated it with new and advanced learnings – you reach the finishing point.You reach a stage where you’re a little more knowledgeable and a little more advanced, but don’t think this to be the end. It is merely another phase of the unlearning journey, because unlearning is a forever cycle.

<ul><li>Instead of completely flipping your life around and making drastic, dramatic changes, start off slow. Make small changes in your life to replace previous habits/tasks and work your way up to more difficult tasks.</li><li>To begin unlearning you need to learn that your past tactics won’t be useful forever. It’s about making that realisation that change is the need of the hour.</li><li> </li></ul>

Things to keep in mind

<ul><li>It’s necessary to have a constant look at your life, especially a view from outside, to be self aware. When you have that vision you’ll be able to predict which skills will and will not help you thrive in the future and that allows you to make changes to things that no longer serve a good purpose in your life.</li><li> </li></ul>

 In the morden chaotic world full of constant changes and forever hustle, unlearning has become much more useful and necessary to thrive and make a mark. No matter what you're doing in life, it will become a necessity - now or in the near future. 

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The concept of work life balance basically views work and life as 2 separate parts of our life that need to be maintained equally. In a much broader sense, it means to utilise more time for leisure things, family time or simply self care. It is something which many youths, including myself, struggle with. It’s difficult to find a space that is just the right balance of work and leisure.

Introduction To Work-life Balance 0

The reason why work-life balance has become such a growing topic in discussions among the self-help and self-care community is because the “constant hustle” cultre has fixed the idea of constantly being on the go, working and being productive into the workforce and has made it the norm.This has built the toxic idea in most workplace employees that they should be constantly on the go and hustling, being productive instead of taking time off for themselves and doing things that they love.

About work-life balance

Even if you love your job & are motivated to work, overworking yourself without taking breaks will eventually lead to some resentment – either towards yourself, your colleagues or even your job.Constantly being on the run, working even on the weekends will lead to eventual burnout – be it mentally or physically – this is what leads to resentment & negative feelings which is your mind & body’s indication to needing a break.Assuming that working harder than others will lead you to great success in your career is wrong. Yes, it might help to get ahead, but at the cost of your own well being.

<ul><li>Define </li></ul>Before going into work-life balance, you need to know what is ‘balance’ for you.Write down the things in your life that are priorities, then analyse your life daily life and try to make an estimate on how much time you’re able to allot to each priority.Then take a moment to reflect on that.Are you happy with that? What would you like to change? How much of a change do you want? How will that change your life?

Tips to maintain work-life balance

<ul><li>Set Schedules </li></ul>When you realise how you want your day-to-day life to be organized it becomes easier to schedule your day accordingly.Set a fixed schedule for workdays with fixed times for work and fun things that you enjoy .When you have a fixed schedule, especially one that is more or less consistent throughout all workdays, it becomes much easier to get into that ‘flow’ state of work and enjoy uninterrupted work times. Also helps you detangle yourself from work after a specific time and just enjoy other things.

Now, it might seem easy to fix a schedule and plan out your entire day, but the difficult part is sticking to that workplan and being consistent with it. Especially as someone like me who doesn’t fit well with schedules and hates being routine, it gets boring.

Cons To This

<ul><li>Turn Off </li></ul>Turn off work mode – both, from your devices and your head.Turn off work and email notifications. If possible, turn off devices and spend time doing the things that make you happy or spend time with people that make you happy.It’s important to not let work distract you during times that are supposed to be your ‘off’ times. Obviously this won’t work for you if you have a job that requires you to be on alert most of the times.But for a student plus writer like me, it’s easy to shut off my phone and go out on a walk or read or study my favourite subjects.

<ul><li>Make Boundaries </li></ul>When you have a schedule and fixed times for everything, there is only that limited time for you to work and to relax. It’s important to learn to maintain that boundary between your work and your personal life. Learn to not bring your work into your personal space, to give time to people outside of the work environment and maintain balance.The way to achieve this balance is from within, it is a resultant of your own choices and it’s important for you to make wise decisions and respect the boundary that you have created for yourself.

If you are someone like me who finds it difficult to work within boundaries,it’s going to be a difficult task to navigate through them and be disciplined, but the only way to have successful work-life balance is by execution- simply learn to work within boundaries and stick to your routine.

Cons To This 

<ul><li>Reflect </li> </ul>After atleast a month of following through, go back to analysing your daily life. Ask yourself the same questions you asked yourself in the first step. Are your answers different now? Do you feel more happy/content with the way your work-life balance is now? Observe and reflect on your emotions before and after and see if things have changed.

<ul><li>Work-life balance is based on the idea that work and life are 2 different parts of our life that need to be maintained equally. It creates this barrier between work and life and puts a pressure on people to be able to manage both equally and successfully. </li><li>But the reality of the situation is that work and life can never be equally balanced in life. </li></ul>

Cons to work-life balance

<ul><li>There will be times when you will have to make certain decisions based off of your professional life and that takes priority in your everyday life. </li><li>There will also be times when your personal life will take the spotlight and you will set your work away to enjoy your life with people you love or just do things to keep yourself happy. </li></ul>

So when it is clear that having a perfect work-life balance isn’t possible and yet we pressurise ourselves to live that way, it is just like running a race but in the opposite direction to everyone else – you might feel like you’re winning when in reality you’re making decisions that will not benefit you. It’s important to accept that the idea of perfect work-life balance is not correct. Accept that you cannot treat things as rigid blocks, sometimes things are just grey

Work-life integration removes the idea of having a perfectly balanced equation between work and life and blends everything together.To be precise, it removes the rigid boundaries between your personal and professional life and sets your day in such a way that work, health, family, self, everything is given appropriate attention but without the strict regimes and schedules.It is a way of creating a collaboration between many areas of your life.

Work-life integration

With the added flexibility to your life, it becomes easier to manage work and personal life and if you feel like adding more things to your life, you can easily do that.It gives the opportunity to be professional while handling many things at the same time and still remain sane !

Pros Of Work-life Integration 

<ul><li>Create a schedule that focuses on all the main priorities in your life. Unlike schedules from work-life balance that dealt with ensuring ‘equlibrium’ between work and life on almost a daily basis, these schedules are based more on what you feel like and what you’re motivated to do</li><li>For example – one day I might be in the mood to study and write and instead of going out with friends i would just stay at home and read a book or draw. </li><li>The next day I might not be in the mindset to study, so I could spend time with friends and family.</li><li>It’s a way to balance your life,but in a way that suits you.</li></ul>

Tips to work-life integration

<ul><li>The only thing to keep in mind is to make sure that your schedule distributes time to all your priorities in a more or less equal amount and fulfills you and the people most important to you.</li><li>Just like in work-life balance situations, it’s important to have boundaries here as well, but not as strict/rigid.</li><li>Here you don’t have to set times in your day reserved only for work and only for fun. You only have a brief blueprint of how much time you want to spend working and how much on leisure things.</li><li>You just need to try and not let the two (work and fun) overlap and keep them at a distance.</li></ul>

Tips... 

<ol><li>If you don’t spread your priorities out equally, you might end up spending most of your time either working or on leisure things.</li><li>You may not be able to properly navigate through the blend of work and life and might lose the grip on maintaining balance between the two.</li><li>You may have your mind constantly preoccupied with other things due to lack of proper scheduling of thoughts and work times.</li></ol>

Cons to work-life integration

Having work-life balance is an important thing.. or is it? Here is debate about the pros and cons of work-life balance and a slightly better option. 

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Believe it or not, colours actually play a large role in controlling your energy and inturn, control your everyday productivity.They have the power to have an effect on your physical, emotional and intellectual state of mind.In general, colours can either have a positive or a negative effect on you and your work flow. So it’s important to have the right type of colours in your workspace to release the right kind of energy from that space.

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It’s interesting to note that the influence of colours in our energies is largely based on our own inner nature and the extent to which the colours can affect us is based on some of the most prominent emotions within us. Another interesting fact; it is not only the colours that have an effect on us but also the shade of the colour can have a positive or negative affect on us.

This strong colour wakes up the physical aspect of the workspace and even has physical effects on the people in the workspace.Often known as the ‘stimulating colour’ , red can get your heart beating and your pulse rising.If you’re someone who needs just a little extra push to get you working, this warm colour is the way to exert that pressure on yourself.

Colours do affect your own productivity and can also have an affect on your team's work. It is important to keep in mind the various colours and their effects before setting up a workspace. 

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