Self-Care With Shaki

Do you ever feel like you got nothing out of school or college? You might have taken various levels of examination and invested hours of learning but still do you think that much of what you learned was not useful in actual situations? Research confirms the fact that much of what we study does not actually transfer to the situations we need it. In one study, Psychologist Howard Gardner says that “students who receive honor grades in college-level physics courses are frequently unable to solve basic problems and questions encountered in a form slightly different from that on which they have been formally instructed and tested.” All these facts confirm that we get very little out of school or college academics. Why is that we are not able to build a skill out of what we study in schools and colleges for numerous years? Should we blame the structure of our schools and colleges? Maybe yes or maybe not.   But also our own learning efforts play a greater role in ...

We all have heard the hype of "Smart work is better than hard work" and "Work smart not hard" but really, what is smart work? Does it require so much attention? Or is smart work is something where you can achieve your goals without even working hard? Smart work is basically the act of putting effort and applying our brain in order to produce maximum result by using minimum labor. For example, Centuries back the cage man pushed his cart or huge pieces of stone for carrying it from one place to the other. But the modern man-made a wheelbarrow to easily carry his load and travel long distance with less effort and with more efficiency. This is where smart work comes into the picture. Hard work is all about consistently working towards a particular goal irrespective of its worth and not being worried about the result or by not using any means to reduce your effort. You tend to work hard when you do not apply any brain or logic to your work. Only hard wo...