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Be your own master (Part I)

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While we sit inside of our homes, we are totally ignorant of the other fraction of the world who are not very privileged like us. Where the other fraction struggles for a single meal every day, we complain about the luxuries our lives are missing. It is so easy to be self-occupied and not feel responsible for others when our wants and needs are never ending and there’s no control over it. But we must learn to manage it. If managing it can provide someone a meal for a day, isn’t it worth it? I believe that as a human it is our duty to care of others who has no one, I guess that’s what makes us humans. Animals fight for territory and hold grudges and so do we. What is that ‘distinctiveness’ which makes us different from animals? We have a higher functioning brain than them which should be our advantage but we are exploiting it to exploit others and everything around us. There is a greater need than ever before to bring a change for our own betterment, to right all the wrongs. Starting ...

Being Intelligent is not the same as being Educated

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Add caption Intelligence is one of the most studied topics in psychology yet there is so much confusion and misperceptions about intelligence. There are many definition of intelligence but none of them can define the whole concept of intelligence but the definition by Wechsler somewhat accumulate the aspects of intelligence.  "... the global capacity of a person to act purposefully, to think rationally, and to deal effectively with his environment." Every theorist of intelligence has put some light upon different aspects of intelligence so by relying on just one definition could lead to disastrous results. In educational institutions we often determine a person’s intelligence by their academic achievements therefore blurring the fine line between intelligence and education. Because of this made up overlap we often judge a person’s intelligence in a wrong way. Intelligence is a capacity, the ability to be able to learn new things and produce something, it cannot be evalu...