Loratis Workshop at RVCE, Bangalore
Mirroring – My Type
When we meet a new person we need to assess quickly if he or she is positive or negative towards us, the way other animals do for survival reasons.This is general done by seeing other person’s body (gesture) – the same way we do in what is known as ‘mirroring’. Bonding with each other happens, when we mirror each other’s body language – a indication of accepted and creating rapport. I am sure many of us have noticed a common mirroring is yawning – one person starts and it sets everyone off. Robert Provine found that yawning is so contagious you don’t even need to see another person yawn – the sight of a wide-open mouth is enough to do it. It was once thought that the purpose of yawning was to oxygenate the body but we now know that it’s a form of mirroring that serves to create rapport with others and to avoid aggression — just as it also does for monkeys and chimps.
At times we see that non-verbal mirroring at party – for example two people show up at a party or meeting wearing the same outfit, they could become lifelong friends. This is why people at a rock concert will all jump to their feet and applaud simultaneously or give a ‘Mexican Wave’ together. The syn-chronicity of the crowd promotes a secure feeling in the participants. Similarly, people in an angry mob will mirror aggressive attitudes and this explains why many usually calm people can lose their cool in this situation.
The urge to mirror is also the basis on which a queue works. In a queue, people willingly co-operate with people they have never met and will never see again, obeying an unwritten set of behavioural rules while waiting for a bus, at an art gallery, in a bank or side by side in war. Professor Joseph Heinrich from the University of Michigan found that the urges to mirror others are hardwired into the brain because co-operation leads to more food, better health and Learning to mirror our parents begins early: Prince Philip and a young Prince Charles in perfect step
economic growth for communities. It also offers an explanation as to why societies that are highly disciplined in mirroring, such as the British, Germans and ancient Romans successfully dominated the world for many years.
Mirroring makes others feel ‘at ease’. It’s such a powerful rapport-building tool that slow-motion video research reveals that it even extends to simultaneous blinking, nostril-flaring, eyebrow-raising and even pupil dilation, which is remarkable as these micro-gestures cannot be consciously imitated.
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I am ‘No More’
I know this ‘Not Sound and Healthful’, but thinking about dying inspires me. For a moment, When I realize I will be no more and the kind of sensation of everything I feel, think and know of myself to be gone – my all senses vibrate in a way I can’t explain. I am born with millions of choices – I can travel, read, eat any kind of food, movies and feel more things than 99% of all humans who have ever lived. I see that it’s all waiting for me, right there now and latter. To come face to face death is the most inspiring in my life. According to Kafka wrote ‘The meaning of life is that it ends.’ I would like to get the things I like out of my life while I am alive or give to those in need, before the death call. I am carried and touched with my own death and I like to think about it often. I am sure like me, many would like to die regret-free, this helps me to passionately appreciate the choices I make today.
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Programming Interview Tips
When
asked
a
question,
open
a
dialoge
with
the
interviewer.
Let
them
know
what
you
are
thinking.
You
might,
for
example,
suggest
a
s low
or
partial
solution
(let
them
know
that
the
solution
is
not
ideal),
mention
some
observations
about
the
problem,
or
say
any
ideas
you
have
that
might
lead
to
a
solution.
Often,
interviewers
will
give
hints
if
you
appear
to
be
stuck.
Often,
you
will
be
asked
to
write
a
program
during
an
interview.
For
some
reason,
interviewers
usually
have
people
write
programs
on
a
blackboard
or
on
a
sheet
of
paper
rather
than
on
a
computer.
It
is
good
to
get
practice
with
writing
code
on
the
board
in
order
to
be
prepared
for
this.
Here
is
a
list
of
”do’s”
and
”don’t's”
when
doing
a
programming
interview:
Do’s
• Ask
for
clarification
on
a
problem
if
you
didn’t
understand
something
or
if
there
is
any
ambiguity
• Let
the
interviewer
know
what
you
are
thinking
• Suggest
multiple
approaches
to
the
problem
• Bounce
ideas
off
the
interviewer
(such
as
ideas
for
data
structures
or
algorithms)
• If
you
get
stuck,
don’t
be
afraid
to
let
them
know
and
politely
ask
for
a
hint
Don’t's
• Never
give
up!
This
says
nothing
good
about
your
problem
solving
skills.
• Don’t
just
sit
in
silence
while
thinking. The
interviewer
has
limited
time
to
find
out
as
much
as
possible
about
you,
and
not
talking
with
them
tells
them
nothing,
except
that
you
can
sit
there
silently.
• If
you
already
know
the
answer,
don’t
just
blurt
it
out!
They
will
suspect
that
you
already
knew
the
answer
and
didn’t
tell
them
you’ve
seen
the
question
before.
At
least
pretend
to
be
thinking
though
the
problem
before
you
give
the
answer!
Source:MIT
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Loratis Flagship and Trademark Workshop ‘Crack the Campus Code’
I Gave Up?
Being on demand as creative person is challenging in comparison to think ‘to be creative’. One has to develop helpful habits, and that’s about persistence. There is no single recipe for a problem right away, identifying the stumble, fears and working through them is rarely fun. If we look closely into this pattern, at some point, all creative tasks become work. The mundane work begins – this could be boring, no more fun, less interesting, ordinary, boring etc a necessary to bring an idea to the world becomes the reality.
Edison, Einstein, Jesus, Buddha and various others worked everyday but they all had a common core of willpower and commitment as their driving force. Many creators have outworked their peers. If we look back into history, they were not given divine power or were highly intellectual with education or genetics; the biggest difference between the greats and us was their dedication to their art and commitment. Each one of peers are talented, or more so, but twice as lazy. All failures happened because they were consistently given up before there were finished. We hardly know the one’s stood second or third or later, because the world cares about ideas that are shared.
During our training course we tend to ask questions about ideas – Do anyone wants to be entrepreneur? Atleast 50 percent and above raise their hands. My next question has shown me the facts about this idea – What have you done in the last few years towards the idea? Many hands drop down. That explains everything; ideas are lazy. Ideas can’t do anything on their own. One has to understand that, the routine or ordinary work is important to make the real idea, it’s not the issue about creativity at all.
Whenever an idea has formed in one’s head, it has to leave the brain to change the world – a journey towards hardwork and dedication.
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Loratis Workshop for Ist Year Engg
You in You!
Each one of us possesses everything necessary to be more creative. If we look into every amazing creative thing or idea such as – an automobile, an engine and wheels, a telephone, electricity and sound and others. If we look closely on all these great creative ideas, inventions, and theories are composed of other ideas. These tell us, to be creator instead of consumer, the existing ideas act as fuel for your mind. One should start looking at them combinations of ingredients waiting to be reused rather than as merely as objects or functional things. Increasing observations will help to increase creativeness.
Great tasty foods are combos, chef master learn to find, evaluate, and explore more combinations than other people. It has lead to increase the odds, by using reusable patterns to develop new ideas. For example, musicians throughout history have reused melodies, chord progression and even entire song structures. The Disney film ‘The Lion King’ is a retelling of Shakespare’s Hamlet. Shakespare was likely influenced by the early Greek tragedies. Any field of creative we can see that patterns of reuse and recombination everywhere. It’s an illusion when an author writes a book it appeared magically into writer hands from out of nowhere.
It doesn’t mean we steal and put one’s name on it. That’s theft, and fairly uncreative kind of theft at that. The goal here is to recognize how much inspiration, or recombine without breaking laws or violating trust. Because every field has its own rules and limitations, but creative fields are more liberal than you’d expect.
Why do we fail to observe as a creator rather than consumer? Stay tuned to read further, Good Day!
