Human brain cannot multitask
Yes, too be sure.
Your uncle Jo may claim otherwise, but it is one thing at a time.
Want a proof? Look what happens when a driver indulges in sweet nothings over his mobile phone and you hold your heart in your sleeve and escape unhurt by the breadth of your hair.
Yessir. Humans aren’t as multi-functional as they would like to believe. I wish the eminent neuroscientist Dr. Vilayanur S.Ramachandran bears me out on this!
I read somewhere that laws that allow hands-free use of cell phones while driving will increase accidents.
Here is a first hand account (source forgotten):
Terror because this law will do nothing to curb the abuse of talking on the phone while driving, the main culprit behind accidents involving cell phone use in cars, and will in fact encourage fools to keep on talking while driving with the results like the one I witnessed this week on the one way street.
According to Dr. Marcel Just, at the time co-director for the Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging in the psychology department at Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh and his team said that when the brain is asked to divide its time between two high-level tasks, it gives each task less attention than if it had to do the tasks one at a time, according to Just.
There are now enough distractions to the person on the wheels - phone, children, pets, TVs, GPSs, radios, etc.
But listening to the radio or talking to passengers in the car is found to be not as hazardous as talking on a cell phone while driving. When you use a cell phone to talk to someone, you make a mental image of that person, such that in your mind they are in the car with you. Hence your brain cells are preoccupied with that mental imagery. And that puts even more mental load and focus on the conversation than on driving. Your mind is in effect absent on the road. But you are not so preoccupied while listening to a radio or talking to a person actually in the car.
Want to talk and continue to breathe? Pull over. Period.
Do not drink and drive. Ok. But do not think and drive either. It is more dangerous.
A lesson from the legend of Raja Harischandra
During my travel in the chair car of a train from Bangaloru to Chennai in India, I had a school-going boy on the adjacent seat. He was reading the legend of Raja Harischandra in comics form.
After he finished reading it, I asked him whether he liked the story. The boy was very emotional in his reply. He was visibly indignant.
“I hate this Raja Harischandra. He was so adamant and obstinate. My father always tells me that I should not behave stubbornly like that. One should be flexible to the demands of the situations. And that king submitted himself to the pranks of the wicked sage. What kind of a sage he is to torture a gullible king like that.
And what right this man has got to sell his wife and children just to repay his imaginary debt to a sage. He should be ashamed of himself to sell his own son.Will my dad do such a thing? I wonder why people speak high of his conduct. This is a bad example.”
He ranted on in his convent English, with matching gesticulations.
I quizzed him as to what was the moral of the story according to him. His reply was an eye-opener!
“What this book teaches me is that if you are dogmatic and foolishly sticking on to some belief and be derelict of your duties as a king, husband and a parent, you will end up suffering like Harischandra in addition to causing ignominy and endless suffering to your family too.”
I can’t help agreeing with him in toto. There is nothing like an absolute truth in this world. The truth according to your perception may differ from mine!
The best way to get something done is to begin it!
We can’t wait for all things in place to begin something. You will never do anything!
Here is a sane advice from “Common Craft” (about whose video I had blogged earlier)based on their experiences with the video projects. Excellent, ain’t it!
If you’re about to start something new, don’t spend weeks trying to make the first attempt perfect. Get started as quickly as possible and learn as you go. Tinker, experiment and look for the big things you can tackle as you go. Solve problems when they need to be solved and you won’t feel as overwhelmed by all the things that could be fixed.
And this is from one of the comments:
I often find that I just have to jump right in and get going with something instead of overthinking it and trying to get all my ducks in a row first. You can do all the research in the world but sooner or later you just have to get started - I think a lot of people use ‘research’ as an excuse not to start.
The moral of the story is - quit “All or Nothing” attitude and put your shoulder to the wheel!
Hypocrisy and perversion of painter M.F.Hussain
Please have a look at the way the “famous” painter M.F.Hussain has chosen to denigrate the Hindu Gods being worshiped by a vast majority if Indian population. And the double standards applied by him in fully clothing Mother Teresa and a Muslim king, but depicting only Hindu gods naked betrays his perverse approach, emboldened by the support given by pseudo-secularists of India.
YouTube - Watch - Hussain mocking Hindu Gods!
Compare this to the furore created when a few cartoons showing Prophet Mohammed appeared in a Danish newspaper.
And to top it all, he is going to be awarded with Raja Ravi Varma Award by the Government of Kerala!
Yoohoo, self-respecting Hindus, please wake up from your Hypersomnia!
To know more about this sordid episode and to sign an on-line petition against this kind of derogatory depiction, please visit the Hindu Jajgriti Samiti Website. You can also view the divine paintings of Raja Ravi Varma, and the naked renderings of “superior art” by perverse Hussain juxtaposed for your perception!
Paintings of M.F Husain denigrating Hindu deities
The above is one of the paintings through which the 90-year-old Famous (!) painter M.F. Hussain chose to denigrate the Hindu Gods by depicting them nude and in obnoxious erotic postures.
Any self-respecting Hindu, and for that matter any reasonable and straight thinking individual will not approve of this kind of acts which aim to hurt the religious sentiments of tens of thousands of people.
You can view the other such handiworks of Hussain and sign an on line petition in this web site.
On returning morals!
Render unto Caesar things which be Caesar?s!
Swami Vivekananda, the most practical of all the ascetics of his genre, had declared that the best amongst you is the best in repaying. It applies to ?returning? of things ?in kind? too! But how many of us promptly return the things borrowed from others without the owner asking for it! I think it is a rare virtue amongst the homo-sapiens!
But we should inculcate the habit of returning other’s property promptly (before getting reminded about it by the owner) to the children. In fact, it should be part of the curriculum in schools!
Books are invariably the culprits! Many have built big libraries out of borrowed books!
Now, how many such skeletons are there in your cupboard?
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