The thing about confirmation bias is that you who believe it would find it almost impossible to conceive the fact that there could be anything alternate or contrary to what you believe, so, when you go looking for answers to your questions, you make a critical error of asking the wrong questions.
iscipline comes when the bar is set high, when the goal to be achieved is demanding, just hard enough for us to convince ourselves that if we put in enough effort we could archive it.
During 2007 there was this outburst of news that the Illuminati and Beyoncé and Jay z and all other awesome rap artists where having a gang bang without condoms, and that instead of bodily fluids they were exchanging souls and stuffs like that. Okay, I made up the gang bang part, but the story was everywhere.
Because of the need to express very strong emotions we often use big words, and it seems, the better you get to know a language the better you can, you know, express yourself. The whole thing is about self expression. Its also the reason a single master piece painting on the wall Can tell an entire story words just couldn’t, same with anything related to art
If you try explaining something and use an instance like “these are the smallest units of this organization, just like the atom of every matter they can’t be split any further” most people would just nod their heads and let you finish making your point, however if someone with the extraordinary ability of being an asshole was there, he would jump right in, cutting you off midway as he tries to point out the fact that an atom isn’t the smallest part of a matter… so nice, right?, just clarifying things, not letting the wrong information spread, saving the day
We have all heard about peer pressure, however for some unknown reason we seem to ignore it, and at worst deny it. It is indeed quite uncomfortable to imagine or admit that someone else is directly influencing our behaviour, but It doesn’t always have to be this way. We could actually find this phenomenon quite helpful (more…)
On my first year in the university, I was kind of nerdy, I didn’t even know how to shake people and snap my finger (snapping your fingers after a handshake is like a ritual in Nigeria, if you don’t know how to do it they would assume you live under a rock or something). I felt really out of place, it was the university, no parents, no relations not even former friends, all things were new and you had to associate, to build a new circle of friends, it was indeed horrible not to know something this basic, the lifeblood of University socialization. (more…)
Don’t just go ahead and ruin a perfect relationship because they refused to fondly your sex organ or whatever genuine reason you might have. Relationships are way more than that. If the people you are going after are high class and worthy of being friends with you, then they should have no problem understanding this, and for crying out loud, this is actually a complement to them,
Expressing yourself early helps the person not to take you as just a nice person, but rather a person that wants to sweep them off their feet…Nice people are good for friendships, that’s how you get into the friendzone in the first place
The society receives countless feedback of success in doing the wrong things, so much emphasis has been placed on the importance of Money, Power, Sex and fame that we are forced to believe that those are the definitions of success and who ever archived any of these, no matter the means, is indeed wise and deserves some accolades.