RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Burrhus Frederic Skinner was a pioneering, also provocative, psychologist. His work led to the emergence of a new understanding of human behaviour while changing the contexts of how society viewed everything from penitentiaries to childcare. Skinner deliberated that free will was an illusion and that all our actions were a result of conditioning […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR It was Nicholas Copernicus who first proposed, in 1853, that the earth was not the centre of the universe, but it, in fact, revolved around the sun. It took over a century for the idea to sink in — a gradual and rather agonising transformation. The Darwinian perestroika has been no different, notwithstanding […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Plato was the first philosopher to resolve, or settle, a dualistic premise — the body-soul construct in ancient thought. He believed that the soul was immortal and distinct from the body, although he elevated the metaphysical ‘fencepost’ for its credence. He believed the soul was also perpetual. He suggested that the soul doesn’t […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR The Chinese have, for long, created a perestroika of sorts. They use acupuncture for stroke victims, among other conditions. The big question. What makes such a ‘needle-centric’ therapy so unique, effective and, sometimes, a wonder to modern scientific thought? Wait a moment. Acupuncture, defined as a go-between orthodox and fringe medicine, is a method […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR The fact is — there is more to intelligence than what meets the mind, eye, or the ear. This is because the whole fulcrum of noted psychologist Daniel Goleman’s articulation for emotional intelligence [EI] highlights a perceptively original synthesis of research with insights into the brain architecture that propels our emotions and rationality, […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Celebrity novelist John Grisham is to legal artifice and righteous failing what Lucius Annaeus Seneca was to stoic philosophy — and, still is — the difference being of degree. Grisham challenges to triumph by nurturing the nerve to flunk; the cabal to him is neither the ground nor the consequence of belief. His job […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR All of us know that intelligence is more than a symphony of ‘know-how’ and ‘know-what’ areas in the brain. As Juan Huarte, the Spanish physician, contextualised, intelligence is the ability to learn, exercise judgment, and be imaginative — a case of neural Darwinism, lyrical and evolving. For Jean Piaget, the Swiss psychologist, intelligence […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Just think about it. What makes us ‘hit’ the floor each morning and reach out from sleep to awareness, from emptiness to existence and from dream to reality? It is energy — of our mind and body. The equation is remarkably specific. We need body energy to move in the physical sense and […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Most of us, despite our best efforts, feel out-of-sync, or balance, at times. This is, perforce, normal in the troubled times that we now live in — or, what our ancients articulated as their own essence of ‘troubled’ times. Whatever the epoch, a sense of a creeping, eerie feeling for adversity, or difficulty, […]
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RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Daniel Goleman, PhD, the noted psychologist and best-selling author, pioneered the concept of emotional intelligence [EI]. This bid fair to his ground-breaking book, by the same name. It was followed by his yet another landmark tome, Working with Emotional Intelligence. It set out a framework of EI that reflects how an individual’s potential […]