Mimetic Desire/ How to Cure Headache

Mimetic Desire/ How to Cure Headache Dear all Mimetic desire is a concept in sociology, philosophy, and psychology that suggests that our desires and wants are often copied or imitated from others. This means that we often desire things not because we truly want them, but because we see others wanting them, and this makes us want them too. Source: https://siboehm.com/articles/20/girard-for-non-philosophers Here are seven examples of mimetic desire: Fashion trends: When a particular style or fashion trend becomes popular, many people start wanting to wear the same clothes or accessories as others. Social media: When we see our friends or influencers on social media buying or using certain products or brands, we may feel a desire to do the same. Consumerism: Many people feel the need to keep up with the latest gadgets, cars, or other consumer goods simply because others have them. Romantic relationships: When we see others in happy and fulfilling relationships, we may feel a desire to find similar connections with others. Popularity: People often strive to be popular or have more followers on social media because they see others who are well-liked and admired. Fad diets: When a particular diet becomes popular, many people may try it simply because others are doing it, rather than because it suits their personal needs or lifestyle. Political ideologies: Many people may adopt certain political ideologies or beliefs because they see others who support them, rather than making independent decisions based on their own beliefs and values. Overall, mimetic desire highlights the powerful influence of social and cultural factors on our desires and wants, and the importance of being aware of our own motivations and preferences. Subscribed **One Video I Enjoyed** How to stop headaches using science based approaches. https://youtu.be/CGjdgy0cwGk **Two Tweets I Enjoyed and Liked** There's a 💊 drug (named Zolgensma) that costs $2.5mn (Rs 18 crore). Currently the world's costliest drug. Why is it so expensive? https://twitter.com/paraschopra/status/1381947695980453889?t=rjQ5YBhVD_hFm30i7s34Dg&s=19 Warren Buffett's letter analysed by Max Koh https://twitter.com/heymaxkoh/status/1574355388241043459?t=MGvTw_7j501RmSm5hQQXqw&s=19 **Three New Websites I Enjoyed and Liked** LifeClock is a fun way for visualizing exactly how old you are, down to the current millisecond. https://lifeclock.be/ Simple explanation of complex ideas in philosophy https://www.philosophybro.com Most Popular Tools at a single place. https://tinywow.com/ **Three Quotes or Phrases I Liked** Vision is not enough; it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs. —Václav Havel Ironically, jobs are actually easier to enjoy than free time, because like flow activities they have built-in goals, feedback rules, and challenges, all of which encourage one to become involved in one's work, to concentrate and lose oneself in it. Free time , on the other hand, is unstructured, and requires much greater effort to be shaped into something that can be enjoyed. To win, you have to avoid losing.The first thing chess masters do after an opponent makes a move isn't to think about strategy or winning but rather to ask themselves: what's the threat? Avoid stupidity before seeking brilliance. **Two Write Ups I Enjoyed and Liked** Whenever a Tiger kills someone in the forest a red cloth is tied to a tree to mark the spot where they are killed and to show where a tiger has been hunting. A write-up on battle for survival in the Sunderbans. https://earthjournalism.net/stories/a-battle-for-survival-in-the-sundarbans Why are hyperlinks blue? https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/deep-dives/why-are-hyperlinks-blue/ **One Photo I Enjoyed and Liked** Source: http://www.hellomaggiec.com/ Thanks Xoxo

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Baader-Meinhof phenomenon/Random number generator/

Dear all Shortly after buying my new mobile, I noticed that many people seemed to have the same mobile. In newspaper also same mobile advertisement floated. In metro also I heard people talking about the same mobile phone. Was that some sort of magic.  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

	Week#6/ Baader-Meinhof phenomenon/Random number generator/ Dear all Shortly after buying my new mobile, I noticed that many people seemed to have the same mobile. In newspaper also same mobile advertisement floated. In metro also I heard people talking about the same mobile phone. Was that some sort of magic. Many people also feels the same for some of the things. This phenomenon is know as Baader–Meinhof phenomenon or frequency bias or frequency illusion. Subscribed The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is when you suddenly notice something that you recently learned about or experienced more often than you would normally expect. Person notices a coincidence or pattern in their life and then notices more instances of that same coincidence or pattern afterwards. It occurs when increased awareness of something creates the illusion that it is appearing more often. Here are four examples of the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon that you may have experienced: You see a particular car on the street multiple times in the same day after only having seen it once before. You hear a particular word or phrase repeated multiple times in the same conversation shortly after having heard it for the first time. You notice multiple ads for a particular product on the same day after only having seen one prior. You hear multiple people talking about the same topic after having just learned about it. Suggested read https://www.damninteresting.com/the-baader-meinhof-phenomenon/ https://productiveclub.com/baader-meinhof-phenomenon/ News to ponder Three earthquake measuring -- 7.8, 7.6, and 6.0 -- magnitude on the Richter scale has devastated Turkey and Syria, while the impacting regions as far away as Cyprus (456 km away), Lebanon (874 km), Israel (1,381 km) and Egypt (1,411 km). **One Video I Enjoyed** Dejian Zeng spent 12 hours a day attaching one screw to iPhones. As part of his summer project, the NYU grad student went undercover for 6 weeks at a Pegatron factory in Shanghai. He lived on-site in a dorm with 7 other people and got to experience what really goes into making the popular mobile device. He tell the Insider Tech what it was like. **Two Tweets I Enjoyed and Liked** Landon | The Flippin' Millennial @LandonClost My uncle passed away from cancer when I was 16 years old. I've since spent 100's of hours researching how to avoid and fight cancer naturally. Here's what I found: 1:05 PM ∙ Sep 6, 2022 204,519Likes56,568Retweets Vidit @supermode_ Mckinsey charges $10,000 per day for a consultant at my level.....yeah👀 No its not for their problem-solving prowess but for phenomenal people skills. Here is the most powerful people skill I learned there:👇🧵 3:09 PM ∙ Oct 15, 2022 8,502Likes1,481Retweets **Three New Websites I Enjoyed and Liked** Graph view of Wikipedia https://blinpete.github.io/wiki-graph/?lang=en&query= When you are bored just use this website https://boredhumans.com/ RANDOM.ORG offers true random numbers to anyone on the Internet. The randomness comes from atmospheric noise, which for many purposes is better than the pseudo-random number algorithms typically used in computer programs. https://www.random.org/ **Three Quotes and Phrases I Liked** "Pay every debt, as if God wrote the bill."— Ralph Waldo Emerson You don't need a rarified job; you need instead a rarified approach to your work. Life group is a different kind of insurance. People talk a lot about medical insurance and life insurance when you get sick. But relational insurance is far more important. I didn't need my dad's money, but I could have used some of his friends. **Two Write Ups I Enjoyed and Liked** Does my son know you? Cancer patients thoughts. https://www.theringer.com/2022/3/3/22956353/fatherhood-cancer-jonathan-tjarks List of Good Habits for The 21st Century https://durmonski.com/self-improvement/list-of-good-habits/ **One Photo I Enjoyed and Liked** Uğur Gallenkuş is an Istanbul-based digital artist of world renown. His collages conscientiously address the widening global divide between the privileged and oppressed, weaving together misery and mirth, wealth and poverty and love and despair. Thanks Xoxo  2023 Aritra Sarkar

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Decision Paralysis/ Superpower Sleep/ Dear All, Came to know about a new term "Choice Paralysis". Choice paralysis, also known as decision fatigue or analysis paralysis, refers to the phenomenon where individuals are overwhelmed by the number of options available to them and are unable to make a decision. This can lead to procrastination, indecision, and dissatisfaction with the final decision made. Means too many choices resulting in unnecessary delay in decision making Eg. Choosing restaurant for dinner when so many options available. Choosing a dress (especially happens with girls 😜) when too many varieties available. Choosing right job when you have too many job offers. Rare nowadays. Choosing a toy out of many options available by your child. News to ponder PM Modi names 21 largest unnamed Andaman & Nicobar islands. Find out names here. India to become first major market to completely move to T+1 settlement cycle w.r.t share market. One Video I Enjoyed and Liked Sleep is your superpower | Matt Walker In this deep dive into the science of slumber, Walker shares the wonderfully good things that happen when you get sleep -- and the alarmingly bad things that happen when you don't, for both your brain and body. Two Tweets I Enjoyed and Liked Liam "The Cleaning Guy" @LiamKircher You're destroying your posture if you do this: 1:13 PM ∙ Jan 21, 2023 826Likes104Retweets Stable Investor @StableInvestor SIP (Trick) of 1% of the Home Loan amount. Many call it the SIP trick to compensate for home loan interest. What exactly is it? Here is the thread🧵that tries to explain this simple idea 👇👇 (1/n) 5:15 AM ∙ Dec 18, 2022 3,146Likes880Retweets Three New Websites I Enjoyed and Liked This website gives a visual representation of time for different zones. Post anonymous confessions online in this website. This website edits your PDFs online for free. It will make changes right away. Three Quotes and Phrases I Liked Train yourself to take nothing personally. Risk is always better than regret. If life were predictable, it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. Two Write Ups I Enjoyed and Liked Cultivating Compassion and Understanding. 27 Life-Changing Micro Habits That Require Only A Few Minutes One Photo I Enjoyed and Liked natgeoyourshot A post shared by National Geographic Your Shot (@natgeoyourshot) Thanks Xoxo © 2023 Aritra Sarkar

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