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Hi, Today's topic is about language and communication. I would like to write about an incident that happened in my life. I was doing research in organic and inorganic food. I collected the required literature and I had to do a pre-survey before I could proceed further in my research. I spoke to few people around, discussed with my supervisor, and framed few questions. When I was working on my research I found that not many people included organic fruits or organic vegetables in their regular diet. There were a number of reasons for them not using organic food and we will not be discussing the reasons here. In the beginning of the survey, I did use the terms organic and inorganic but as I became more confident about my survey, I started using the term organic and normal food. I used normal because a large population consumed inorganic food and hence I termed inorganic food as "normal food". For example, when I asked people what they preferred, my question was framed as ...

As promised in the previous post, I am going to peek further into the parts of the brain that get activated during the creative thinking process.  Fig(i) - The Basal Ganglia Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basal_ganglia  Lim S-J, Fiez JA and Holt LL (2014)  Front. Neurosci. 8:230. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2014.00230  http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnins.2014.00230/full Basal Ganglia - Basal Ganglia lies deep within the brain and is primarily involved in motor control. Motor control means to regulate the mechanisms of voluntary movement, basically, it means an ability to perform any action or movement like writing something or swaying your hand to someone. But today there is research that Basal Ganglia is also associated with the developmental aspects of human skills such as language, speech, memory, learning, etc. Habit learning is also reported to be a part of Basal Ganglia. All these features of Basal Ganglia point towards creativity. (Sou...

What is creativity? Creativity simply means the ability to create (According to Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary) i.e. the ability to fill the gaps, connect the dots and produce something new or bring about a solution not thought before. Creativity is a flow that comes naturally to us all. We are all creative by birth and we learn to be uncreative over the years.  Young children are found to be more creative and it is also found that children start becoming less and less creative as they age. The  article  gives more information on this research. As we become older creativity is pushed aside due to commitments, jobs, and the day-to-day chores we perform. We forget that we are both social and creative animals not just social. Somehow the creative part gets buried somewhere. The good news is that anyone can be creative and at any age, we just have to focus on that area. We can take up a new skill and practice it, or just take a walk and try to observe something new. Proba...

Our brain stores and processes information through a complex network of cells and transforms this information into experiences, perceptions, decisions, and actions. The architecture of the brain is quite complex and structured and you can read more about how our brain works here . It has been reported that our brain is capable of making predictions and storing the errors  associated with those predictions.  Errors can be failures, a different reality, or even doubts about oneself. Predictions, on the other hand, can mean a future plan, projections, expectations, or just being creative. Our blunders and mistakes cost us dearly and we start becoming less and less predictive and creative. People might become more selective and look for certainty in everything and anything, it could be education, career, jobs, skills, or any aspect of growth and improvement. A sure-shot formula to succeed is what people start chasing. Our judgemental approach in all aspects of life hampers our cre...