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Article Review: How Mindfulness Can Help Engineers Solve Problems
It seems that popular topics find their way into academic circles more often these days. I came across a great example of Harvard Business Review by Reiken et al called “ How Mindfulness Can Help...
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Population influence: Lessons from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
IntroductionInfluencing the general public is a hotly debated topic in the policy. In any form of government reforms and agendas have to be 'sold' to the public. The government has traditionally been...
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Review: Mindfulness Meditation and Emotional Eating
The Article reviews the paper "Mindfulness meditation as an intervention for binge eating, emotional eating, and weight loss: A systematic review" published in the Journal "Eating Behaviours" in 2014...
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Role of Positive Psychological Factors in the business environment
Below is an abstract of the paper I wrote for "Telling the story of business: story-driven research in entrepreneurship, business, and marketing", held at the University of South Wales in January 2020....
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Algos and the Madness of crowds
This post is based on a thought I had after listening to Bilal Hafeez on his last appearance on Bloomberg, talking about the impact of the coronavirus on the markets.I am not an expert in finance by...
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The Markets, Coronavirus and what we can do
The markets last night took a dive globally. Everywhere from New York to Karachi, we saw sudden selling and almost panic in the past 24 hours. All of this on the back of coronavirus....
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Is hypnosis real?
The skepticism to the phenomenon of hypnosis is quite prevalent and for good reason. Hypnosis has the same reputation that perhaps politicians do. Ridiculed by the public imagination and my media in...
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Walking through a crisis: The Coronavirus
The world is currently wrapped up in a pandemic, and an associated economic crisis. With this comes a whole lot of other problems, from logistics, to governance, and of course healthcare. Times are...
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Is Pride necessary? (for success)
The idea of having healthy levels of self-esteem, self-worth, and confidence is well recognized in psychology literature. In fact, since at least the 70s there has been a lot of work done on this and...
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A fictional account of how beliefs can hamper success
It is well understood in psychology that our beliefs, especially those formed in childhood can have a great impact on our behaviour and choices later on in life. Even though Cognitive Behavioral...
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Freud: A review
::SPOILERS:::I just finished watching the first and only season of the German/Austrian Netflix Orignal 'Freud'. A reimaging of the early life of Sigmund Freud, before he became famous for his work in...
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Energizing Meditation (when things go wrong!)
I recently came across the idea of Energizing Meditation (EM) in the "National Council for hypnotherapy Journal SUMMER EDITION". The protocol has been proposed by Howard Baron, a retired management...
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Building Self-Efficacy (post crises)
Self-efficacy, confidence in one's own ability to create change, undertake behaviors, is essential for optimum mental health. So much so that it is a major marker for depression. In fact, while doing...
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Ray Dalio is the founder of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund in the world. His work in the investment arena has changed the landscape of the industry. He is so confident in his firm's...
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When research goes wrong
The fallacy of knowledge and human understanding is truly remarkable. Our pomp and self-confidence, even as a civilization, can go well beyond the point where it makes sense. A perhaps more relatable...
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Resilience in today's business world
Resilience is a concept almost synonymous with positive psychology and I feel it is important to discuss resilience, given the Covid-19 environment we are in right now.Resilience is of course the...
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Psychology of Change for the businessperson
While going through a wonderful book written by H.E Stanton about the psychology of trading, I came across a simple concept. Dr H.E Stanton himself has had considerable experience as a performance...
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Science of breathwork
Just watched a video on BBC reel, talking about yogic breathing and the many related health benefits it brings. There were people in the video learning the art in India and claiming that it had helped...
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Atomic Habits: The filler book Preview
I was about to buy this book that I came across, Atomic Habits: An Easy And Proven Way To Build Good Habits And Break Bad Ones By : James ClearThe title of the book if obviously catchy and I was about...
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Can we create our own luck?
I have been reading about luck and probability and its part in the equation for success. We have all heard the age-old phrases of how ‘successful people create their own luck’, or ‘the harder you...
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How should one feel during High-Performance?
We know high performers, in the field of management, sports, art, academia and other crafts, have to go through a considerable level of daily stressors. In fact, it is often thought that stress and...
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Great times for housing real estate in Pakistan
Investing is not an overly complicated process if you have the basics right. Everyone wants to be like a techie, sitting in front of the computer, clicking or typing away, and making money. But the...
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The fallacy of British Raj on the Subcontinent
The below discussion was a result of an argument between me and an Indian nationalist on Quora. This might be considered controversial, however, I feel facts or more important than nationalist feelings...
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Foolish Trends
Trends move the world. It doesn't matter who we are, where we live, what social strata we belong to, or how educated we are, the world, and the society at large, moves in trends. Ideas, social norms,...
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Using Mass Hypnosis for the better: A lesson from Abenomics
IntroductionThe tragic and unforgivable killing of Shinzo Abe put a spotlight back on the defining characteristic of his time as Prime Minister i.e. Abenomics. The success of his economic policies is...
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