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EXAMS

  Exams were invented/discovered to analyse and improve the student function and to improve his ability to face the world. Exams were a tool for the teachers to evaluate the the students understand the blindspots and fill them. In ancient times the students left their homes and lived with their teachers , rishis and yogis would come to their houses and select their pupils and take them to train the as per their requirements. These trainings would consist of reading of vedas and purans, reciting the mantras and others spiritual practices. Focus was to create a well rounded individual who can face the array of difficulties and challenges life throughs at us. Students were also taught to defend themselves, cook, farm and take care of cattle and other domestic animals. Apart from that one teacher only had 2-5 students at his attention. This built a strong connection between the guru and sheeshya, many could call them a team and they were indeed. An example of individual training comes ...

Friendship paradox

Human are social, emotional, and irrational people, we can predict how other people are going to behave but still can’t decide what to do with our selves, some times we get so lost in our selves that can’t see what others want of us. Well same goes the other way round well.  I can’t emphasize enough the value of human relations, I was always the one to think that beauty on the inside is what matters, I was right kind of, but you know we live in a world where the book is judged by it cover no matter how much we try to tell people. This article too is for a person who used to put others before himself, value others opinions more than himself’s, a person so fresh, that he thought he understood humans, but was not even able to scratch the surface, yup! I’m talking about myself.  When I was new in college everything felt like a rainbow, new friends, new place, suddenly from the shed of my parents I fell into to basket of my friends, some them much smarter, and experienced than me, ...