Do not get attached to one emotion

Do not get married to one particular emotional state all the time. Attachment to one kind of emotion (good or bad) for a long time breeds addiction of sorts. We are complex beings. Learn to play with ranges of emotions. Think varieties of emotions as a way to enrich your living experience. They form an

Mental and Emotional Growth

Growth happens when you are constantly challenged by the people around you. If everybody in your circle agrees with your views, you could be living under collective delusion. Seek out contradictions and oppositions to your deeply held ideas. We love it when people show agreement with our thoughts and beliefs. It’s easy to get trapped

Happiness is Complex emotion

Happiness is subjective. We can’t measure it using behavioral science. Components of happy living differs from country to country , culture to culture. Many papers have been written with an effort to quantify it. All of them fail to understand the differences people feel about things. Happiness is a complex emotion, and those trying to

Emotions and Narratives

Emotions influence our decisions more than we think. When it comes to reflection of the past, we love to weave coherent narratives around them. We fail to realize how emotions and heat of the moment played major roles. Its important to acknowledge that feelings and emotions drive so many of our choices. A high school

Algorithms do not represent emotion or meaning

“When all this comes down to is that the very idea of artificial intelligence gives us the cover to avoid accountability by pretending that machines can take on more and more human responsibility. This holds for things that we don’t even think of as artificial intelligence, like the recommendations made by Netflix and Pandora. Seeing

All ranges of emotions

Kids are malleable beings. They pick up surrounding cues quickly. In the name of teaching them to be positive, we fail to introduce them to the complexity of our emotional health. Reality is composed of positive and negative emotions. Sometimes, it’s good to show how people can disagree with each other and live in a

Mysterious Brain

Our brain is a complex system. It is an emergent world of its own. Neurons are the building blocks of brain. Scientists have been able to study individual neurons at a greater detail. They have identified properties of different parts within the neuron. But the emotions arising from the combination of multiple neurons have always

Emotional Eigenvectors

In linear algebra we have a concept called ‘Eigenvector of a Matrix’. Its the special vector that can be stretched or squished but never gets knocked off its span during transformation. In life we build our own emotional eigenvector in the name of prestige, principles, characters , personality and so on. We fall in love