Last Moment Efficiency...Reality or Myth?

Out of 500 people surveyed by a television channel, almost 90% people accepted that there efficiency doubles at the Last Moments of finishing a task. Is that really so, this post will explore that in a moment's time but before that, how many of you believe in last minute efficiencies...almost all of us.

What exactly is there in the final moments which remains absent during the entire timeline?

The answer is quite intriguing, it is the Constraints or Dimensions.

When you are given a task with a big timeline there are 3 dimensions associated with it and as the deadline approaches your efficiency increases proportionally. In other words, an extra dimension comes into picture and you become more efficient.

Let me explain this in a different way, you have been assigned a task of fetching a bucket of water from a well. Is it possible for you to fetch water if you had movement in just one dimension or for that matter 2 dimensions, so you needed 3 dimensions to realize that your work could become easy, now just associate time with it and it becomes efficient as well.

Scientist from Quantun theory believe that there are more than 4 dimensions some say 11 and some others say 26, the count is still a mystery for us but does that mean if we find other dimensions in our life it would help us in more than one ways?

An average person utilizes 8% of brain's capability, is it that the answers are hidden inside some strings of quantum? It is still difficult to tell but then it took one falling apple to find gravity, its just that you need brains of Newton.

Relating Relativity

Remove relativity from your life for next 5 minutes.

How does it feel? Before going ahead, just think about it for sometime 

No competitions, no worries...I already love it!

Almost 1/5th of the words in any language will have no meaning, example: smart will be there but smarter and smartest(being relative) will have no meaning, jargons of physics like relative velocity or frame of reference will be kicked out. So then what makes us go back to the relative world if it makes us unhappy relatively.

How did you feel last time when you did something which was really hard to look at?

I can assure you when you would have completed that activity you would have been on the seventh sky with goosebumps travelling at speed of light across your body.

To get the glimpse of this feeling is RELATIVITY.

Relativity is quintessential part of our lives. When you lose to somebody relativity provides you the zeal to fight back and when you win people greet you and your relativity with respect. Hardwork, efficient performance, enhanced productivity are all the results of Relativity isn't it?

In a broader perspective, the world we know today was discovered because of various relative phenomena; search for relatively better tool to work drove us from Stone to Bronze to Iron age, search for the outer world brought us from Sputnik to Rockets which will now bomb Moon and Mars.

So next time you think of hardwork remember that it is relative and you have to do well in this relative world.

Status Message Syndrome

What was the original intent behind status messages?

It was supposed to be analogous to voice message telling the status of person's availability. It has certainly evolved from there but is it for good...

Today's post is inspired by status messages people put on various portals, generally old sayings and proverbs. It has become a fashion to google famous(/infamous) personalities , copy a charming line stated by them and paste it on status bar. Job done.

On an average a person has 5000 different emotions of which some are even not covered by English language, moreover, human mind thinks of indefinite possibilities in a minute. You don't even know the history behind that saying and it is your status message.

Some examples (I will not be elaborate):

1. An orthodox statement, may be from 14th century, used for something which is just invented few decades back.

2. A religious statement mixed with professional world.

They could be acceptable but validate it first.

In the end, it is your status message and you are the best person to judge it.

But next time you put a status message, just see if this message really helps somebody or it is like several other inspirational statements which are just good to read. 

Thoughtful Dream

Yester-night(imaginative term), I met somebody. I will share our conversation with you all:

I will refer this guy as a freelancer:

He shows me this pic

Freelancer: Inspired by the pic...

Me: Yes absolutely.

Freelancer: But there is problem with this picture

Me: Really, whats that!

Freelancer: It inspires everyone.

Me: Whats wrong in that, it is helping everybody.

Freelancer: Helping huh! Ok.

Freelancer: Let me share some facts...MK Gandhi got a propagation from a push, Thomas Edison got that from experimenting the same thing for not less than 1000 times, Albert Einstein from 3 dimensions and Adam from speaking skies(freaky though)

Me: So...whats the point dude?

Freelancer: I have this unorthodox funda to resolve things which I will share with you...

Whenever I am in search for a solution, I apply the question to my immediate surroundings and in this case the best I can think of is a molecule.

Me: Interesting...

Freelancer: Yeah! Now if you heat a solid bar of iron it's molecules gain kinetics. If we look at microscopic levels, even for a single degree rise in temperature, some molecules behave like they have crossed the threshold of solid state and can liquify. On the contrary, some take more than 1500 Celsius to liquify.

I got the point and I hope you also got it.

As in this case, 1 degree celsius is useless and world needs much more to get that activation energy.

The next thing I heard was my cellphone's alarm.

Predictably Irrational

Illusions are beautiful to look but, are they really?

Illusions are nothing but a Catch-22 situation to our sensory organs, these illusions can just be a source of fun and free entertainment on our mail boxes as indicated by the picture in the left, but when these illusions are taken for granted, and if they remain unsolved, they create myths.

Unsolved illusions can hamper the decision making ability of a person as well. Let me explain this with the help of an example:

There was an ad in, The Economist sometimes back which quoted the prices of its subscription for a year,

Case 1:

i. Online subscription = $59

ii. Print Subscription = $125

iii. Print subscription + Online Subscription = $125

The illusion (hurried decision making made simple numbers an optical illusion) makes you go for the third option. Dan Ariely, professor of behavioral economics, did a survey and found nothing different, the results were 16%, 0% and 84% against option i, ii, iii respectively. Thankfully, nobody went for second option or it would have registered as reverse evolution.

Since nobody wants option ii, why not eliminate it and there you go

Case 2:

i. Print subscription = $59

ii. Print subscription + Online Subscription = $125

All of a sudden, results change now 68% go for option (i) while just 32% remain with option (ii). The useless option became a driving factor here.

Today's entrepreneur knows how to exploit people and people don't get fooled by the mere reason that they don't understand these illusions on the contrary, they don't want to.
I leave it on you, how to decide and go about it, but remember whatever decisions you make are mostly driven by circumstances.

'We' versus 'They'

It's been 3 days now, from when I wrote my first post. Thanks to all who gave me comments and cautions for a head start. While going through the comments, I saw a question; it said the data which you want to put is already available on WWW so then what's the point dude?

Collection of this data leads us to an idea which is not available anywhere...

Recently, I came to know some facts about the myths prevailing about "We" and "They"

We = Western Countries

and, They = Third World Countries.

A reputed investment and consulting group, Goldman Sachs, from USA(esteemed member of First World Countries) coins the term BRIC for economies which are fast emerging and are supposed to eradicate the supremacy of $. Following chart shows future predictions of various economies and this could be validated from wikipedia. The BRIC power is clearly evident in this diagram,

Surprisingly, this BRIC has no room for the first world because it contains 2 second world countries, Russia and China, and 2 third world countries, Brazil and India. What an Irony!!!

Nandan Nilekani, chariman Infosys Technologies limited, explained in his presentation at TED that Indian population which in earlier times was once supposed to be the biggest threat to growth of the country, has now started to become its greatest asset.

The approximate difference between the average ages of India and USA is 5 years right now and this figure is expected to grow to about 9 years, by 2040. Secondly, the number of youths in India will be more than total population of USA. Just imagine the potential that we have in us!!!

We should realize the fact that we are moving into the blanket of progress.

Let's take examples of child mortality and number of births per female, which I consider as 2 most important issues which cause hindrance to any economy because child mortality is a straight indicator of illiteracy, poverty and number of births undoubtedly comes heavy upon the population indicator.

The following video might help figuring out the myth and the reality:

http://www.gapminder.org/downloads/flash-presentations/has-the-world-become-a-better-place/

Assuming that you have gone through the video what can be the analysis brought about by this video, nobody is lagging now, you just have to utilize your resources judicially. We need a good governance, that should do good for you, me and everyone.

Blog's Introduction

I have always believed that confronting people is always a better idea because you don't want to miss even a single expression when you are delivering your thoughts. So then why should I own a blog, the answer to this was hidden in the fact which goes like this - an average person would meet a maximum of 10,000 people in his life span which is just 0.00017% of the entire world' population and this inspired me to, rather, start blogging.

Now that I have started blogging, what's next?

According to one of the reports in Blog Herald, a news channel for bloggers, number of blogs today exceed the whooping 50 million mark which is 5% of the total personal computers world owns today.

So how do I make mine different than others?

I would try to be factual enough to change people's opinion, opinion they share on, otherwise, small issues that the world posses.

A word of caution: Sidekick coming your way.