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...
View ArticlePopulation 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...
View ArticleReview: 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...
View ArticleRole 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....
View ArticleAlgos 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...
View ArticleThe 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....
View ArticleIs 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...
View ArticleWalking 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...
View ArticleIs 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleFreud: 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...
View ArticleEnergizing 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...
View ArticleBuilding 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...
View ArticleWhy does one of the richest men in the world practice Transcendental meditation
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...
View ArticleWhen 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...
View ArticleResilience 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...
View ArticlePsychology 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...
View ArticleScience 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...
View ArticleAtomic 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...
View ArticleCan 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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