Posts

Showing posts from 2022

Up To Speed!

Image
 Imagine a school that has 4 classes of let's say grade 7. Now imagine if someone had asked you to analyze the performance of grade 7 of a particular school. The first metric that usually comes to mind is which particular class is performing well and which isn't. You may not want to report it, but it would definitely cross your mind. Now imagine the top performing class had 25 students. How would you rank these students? By the GPA? By the performance in sports? By the performance in some kind of an aptitude test?  The above was to just give a quick example of comparison. Throughout our life, we are compared to others. Even if your immediate family does not want such kind of an environment, they are tied down by society or the systems in place. The top-scoring students get admissions to good colleges, and students performing well are said to land a good jobs. It is a generalized statement, and I would stand corrected because the percentage of exceptions is minimal.  The world i

Too many ChOicEs?

Image
 It has been quite some time since I have reverted back to this site to put my thoughts out. It is just that phase, just past quarter-life crises to be chic. Or is it? Not really. Choices. I did write a lot about this previously but what got me thinking was, are too many choices good or bad? To write out a post, my mind had to compete with all the other choices I had to pass the time. Netflix, a LOT of Youtube, games, books, and even CandyCrush. If my only choice was to write, this site would have been spammed with content like it did a few years ago.  How would life actually be, if every corner of it had only one road to take? Exciting? Boring? Easy? We are at a point in an age where we are inundated with choices everywhere we look. Everywhere we walk in, we have like a hundred different choices to make. There were many references to the choices of cereals in America before I had been there, and I never thought it was not such a huge thing to worry about. I was always used to just two