Ravi Singh's Blog

February 20, 2016

Dealing with Job Dissatisfaction
(From the TEDx talk delivered at IIT Delhi)

My central idea – It is difficult to completely eliminate job dissatisfaction due to psychological and evolutionary reasons. It can however, be significantly lowered if its root cause is understood well and dealt with intelligently._________________________________________________________________________________My talk would consist of the following parts:Introducing the topicPart 1 – My experience with Job DissatisfactionPart 2 – Explaining the core issue using the spider modelPart 3 – Reaso...
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Published on February 20, 2016 10:01

October 11, 2015

Ethics of Rationing Sleep

The thing about waking up early is that it is painstakingly difficult. It is one thing to hope and thereby resolve one night to wake up early the next morning and another thing to actually make it happen. The fundamental issue at hand is that the person who resolves in the night, is very different from the person supposed to carry out the task and actually wake up the next morning. To enable people who cannot be considered ‘morning people’ to become such, they should understand the psychology...
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Published on October 11, 2015 05:27

October 4, 2015

What is meditation?

For most people, the first image that comes to their minds is a person sitting in lotus position with eyes closed. But when one tries meditating the first question that comes to the mind is that what he is supposed to do after closing his eyes. In fact most people find it punishing to close their eyes and sit quietly for more than five minutes. The answer to that question is not simple. Therefore there are many versions of it given by different people.The different versions translate into dif...
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Published on October 04, 2015 01:41

October 2, 2015

Two Gods and One Belief

There are two Gods in our world. I am not alluding to the notion of multiple gods as envisaged by various religions including but not only Hinduism. I am talking about the two gods which we all experience consciously or subconsciously. There is one ‘god’ which created us and there is another which was created ‘by’ us. I grew up in a Hindu family. Both my parents are very religious and I watched them worshipping gods every day throughout my childhood.I was a pliant kid and assumed that parents...
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Published on October 02, 2015 10:13

The Fountain Pen

When I was in primary school my father gave me a fountain pen. I don’t clearly remember if he gifted it to me or just passed it on after having used it briefly. Whichever had been the case, the fountain pen went ahead to become one of my most prized possessions. Looking behind I don’t clearly remember when or where I lost it, but I do remember having been extremely proud of having it for a long time.Let me tell you a bit about how it looked. It was dull golden in colour. To be more specific,...
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Published on October 02, 2015 03:01