by Benard Makaa | Feb 28, 2017 | Birthday, Stories
“Carpe, carpe. Carpe diem. Or Seize the day, seize the day, Tempus fugit, memento mori. Or “Time Flies, Remember Death.” “Vanity of vanities! All things are vanity!” All things are passing, all things are transient. Time flies, remember death. Remember that you...
by Benard Makaa | Jan 21, 2017 | Psychology
I will keep updating this post as I continue discovering new sources.ONLINE COURSES PLATFORMSCourseraCoursera is an education platform that partners with top universities and organizations worldwide, to offer courses online for anyone to take.EdxEdx is an online...
by Benard Makaa | Jan 15, 2017 | Books
I will keep updating the 2017 list as the year progresses on. For the 2016 list, find it here. For the 2015 list, find it here. 1.The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (P.S.) by Matt Ridley. The book by Matt Ridley gives reasons to be optimistic about the...
by Benard Makaa | Dec 25, 2016 | Uncategorized
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by Benard Makaa | Dec 18, 2016 | Books
Some of the best books I read in the year 2016 include the following. For reviews, you can follow the links. Influence – by Robert Cialdini Classic book on the psychology of persuasion. He explains the psychology of why people say “yes”—and how to...
by Benard Makaa | Dec 11, 2016 | Books, Psychology
Caution: The phrase “Self Help” has become a cliché. Its use here is not intended to mean these “feel-good-about-your-self” ideology so prevalent in today’s motivational texts. Rather it implies those actions you can take on your own without being taught and explained...
by Benard Makaa | Oct 31, 2016 | Psychology
As part of being victims of the Sunken costs fallacy, we find it a tough call to change our careers. You studied say, Electrical Engineering and thus you think you must practice electrical engineering forever even you do not enjoy it. We only live once, yet we spend...
by Benard Makaa | Sep 1, 2016 | Psychology
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a...
by Benard Makaa | Aug 19, 2016 | Psychology
If you overestimate how much people understand you. You are cursed. It’s that simple.Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it. This is more prevalent in the teaching profession where teachers and lecturers rush through the...
by Benard Makaa | Aug 19, 2016 | Psychology
Have you ever started watching a movie, and then one hour into it you realize how terrible it is? But you decide to continue watching because you have already invested one hour into it? Or you continue watching that series even though it is a bore? Severally, I have...
