Club Activities:

Rotaract:

"Tales and Truth" - this week's Rotaract event held on 27th December 2018 in Gallery hall. The event was about finding the truth from the given set of statements. The participants were divided into groups and provided with five statements out of which two were tales. The task is to find the true statements. The event was fun filled and thought provoking. Students showed active participation like always.

General article:

The Akrasia Effect:

Human beings have been procrastinating for centuries. The problem is so timeless, in fact, that ancient Greek philosophers like Socrates and Aristotle developed a word to describe this type of behavior: Akrasia.

Akrasia is the state of acting against your better judgment. It is when you do one thing even though you know you should do something else. Loosely translated, you could say that akrasia is procrastination or a lack of self-control. Akrasia is what prevents you from following through on what you set out to do.

Why We Make Plans, But Don't Take Action

One explanation for why akrasia rules our lives and procrastination pulls us in has to do with a behavioral economics term called “time inconsistency.” Time inconsistency refers to the tendency of the human brain to value immediate rewards more highly than future rewards.

When you make plans for yourself — like setting a goal to lose weight or write a book or learn a language — you are actually making plans for your future self. You are envisioning what you want your life to be like in the future and when you think about the future it is easy for your brain to see the value in taking actions with long-term benefits.

When the time comes to make a decision, however, you are no longer making a choice for your future self. Now you are in the moment and your brain is thinking about the present self. And researchers have discovered that the present self really likes instant gratification, not long-term payoff. This is one reason why you might go to bed feeling motivated to make a change in your life, but when you wake up you find yourself falling into old patterns. Your brain values long-term benefits when they are in the future, but it values immediate gratification when it comes to the present moment.This is one reason why the ability to delay gratification is such a great predictor of success in life. Understanding how to resist the pull of instant gratification—at least occasionally, if not consistently—can help you bridge the gap between where you are and where you want to be.

The Framework You Need to Beat Procrastination

Here are three ways to overcome akrasia, beat procrastination, and follow through on what you set out to do.

Strategy 1: Design your future actions

.Strategy 2: Reduce the friction of starting.

 3: Utilize implementation intentions.

Fighting Akrasia

Our brains prefer instant rewards to long-term payoffs. It's simply a consequence of how our minds work. Given this tendency, we often have to resort to crazy strategies to get things done—like Victor Hugo locking up all of his clothes so he could write a book. But I believe it is worth it to spend time building these commitment devices if your goals are important to you.

Aristotle coined the term enkrateia as the antonym of akrasia. While akrasia refers to our tendency to fall victim to procrastination, enkrateia means to be “in power over oneself.” Designing your future actions, reducing the friction of starting good behaviors, and using implementation intentions are simple steps that you can take to make it easier to live a life of enkrateia rather than one of akrasia.

Fun facts:

1. The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old!

2. A coyote can hear a mouse moving underneath a foot of snow.

3. Bolts of lightning can shoot out of an erupting volcano.

4. New York drifts about one inch farther away from London each year.

5. A U.S. dollar bill can be folded approximately 4,000 times in the same place before it will tear.

6. A sneeze travels about 100 miles per hour.

7. Earth has traveled more than 5,000 miles in the past 5 minutes.

Pics Corner:

D.Gowtham,3rd yr,EEE

R.Renisha,3rd yr,CSE