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Cynical: With A Pinch of Salt

Don't Trust Anyone Who Says "Trust Me!" I feel guilty that I have not been writing new posts. It is a sign that I have not been learning much on the social aspect. I have been writing other things, which I will hopefully share in a few months. I have learnt a lot of stuff.  Let me start by putting it all out there! Everything is basically a lie. Yes, the statement is wide and overreaching, and maybe a bit nayv. But hear me out. The media (News agencies/houses) will at best tell you half-truths, and the government strategically comminucates so to attain a soft landing. Others call it propoaganda. To get the truth and know what's behind the vail/curtain (Holy of holies, eish sorry), you have to intentionally dig deeper. People are usually self-serving and will only tell you what they want you to hear, in other words, what's in their best interest. Easy access to information sources has made digging easier and difficult at the same time is information overload and me...

Limited By Our Mental Models

Limited by Individual's Library of Mental Models I wrote this one frustrated sitting on the boarding gate benches after a flight delay. It might be all over the place. In this one, I used the word model to refer to frameworks, models, and concepts. We all have orientation based on models that are stored in our brains. Have you heard people talk about finding your true north? Yes, based on the models in our minds, we are likely to think that we have found our true north when we do what society expects. However, true north or orientation is something one creates for himself, one of those untypical routes.  Mental models have a lot to do with exposure, that is, things you have come across presented to you or experienced in your life. Mental models are like the flat earth and spherical earth models. Today we still have people who call themselves flat-earthers, meaning they are operating using a model from the BCs. Our brains have many models: primal, ancient, medieval, and new (civilis...

Importance of Failure Data

Failure Teaches More than Miraculous Success Failure is very important, and gathering the right failure data is even more important. For instance, it starts when animals are born, such as humans. The life of a baby is full of failures. Watching a baby elephant learn how to use its trunk was very interesting. Back to humans! Human babies are master experimenters and experiment for the longest time into their 30s. But some never trust their instincts completely and continue experiencing and learning new things mainly from their failures; these are your atypical scientists. Babies have the drive to test everything around them. Thanks to our Robotic Education System , we kill this innate behaviour very quickly. I hope technology will get us to a point where we have individualized homeschool-based learning through online channels. This is where the metaverse for education comes in.  Failure data can be the difference between successful leading individuals or companies and those that are...

Don't Trust the Process

A New Life Perspective Trusting the process actually means giving up on really trying to understand the existing system from a micro and macro perspective. You'll often hear people say trust the process. Without being too technical about it, a process is " a series of actions that you take to achieve a result. " A process has a defined start and end, with intermediate tasks and activities together with controls and disturbances. Processes are put in place to prevent you from exercising your natural instincts in decision-making; it's part of the checks and balances. Processes bring bureaucracy even in enjoyable endeavours. As said, people often like saying go through the process as a form of advice when someone is going through a difficult time that is somehow supposed to teach the particular individual a lesson. You know, one of those lessons you can learn only by going through something. Trust the process! I don't trust processes. I believe in adopting new routin...