Defining Growth Mindset A growth mindset is a lens that allows you to see any challenge as conquerable. It comes from brian’s attribute of neuroplasticity, the ability of neural networks in the brain to change through growth and reorganization. Our brain is a muscle and it only gets stronger by training it. …

When I was 8, every Friday my mother used to give me a budget of PKR 100 to get junk food for the week. I recently reflected on the lesson I had learned but never grasped. The first time I went to the shop on my own, I blindly picked…

One-liners, mindsets, and quotes have been extremely helpful in providing a lens that propels me to do to be the person I aspire to be. Here some mental cues that if you internalize and intentionally practice, will help you shift your perspective towards life for the better. What you find wrong in someone else, correct it in yourself.

What does it mean to be a billionth of a meter? Nanotechnology is the study of materials at the subatomic level - materials that are smaller than an atom. A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter. To put things in perspective- if the Earth was 1 meter, a marble next to it would represent 1 nanometer. Nanotechnology deals with things at…

Quantifying the problem According to UNICEF, one in five school-aged children aren’t in school at all. An estimated 617 million children and youth are unable to achieve a minimum level of proficiency in reading and math, even though two-thirds of them are in school. This shows that lack of formal education isn’t the…

As intelligent beings, when we see anything, we are able to give it context from our previous knowledge. We don’t always need to know everything about a given object to know what it is. …

Urbanization and the 2030 Agenda: Cities play a very important role in our society. More than 80% of the global GDP is generated in cities. Right now, more than half of the world population lives in urban cities which are estimated to be two-thirds by 2050. As urbanization continues to be a major trend, cities…

Urban housing To accommodate the growing urban population, more affordable and adequate housing needs to be arranged. In urban areas, people have to sacrifice the functions of their homes to get a place that ticks off either of the following: good location, size, or budget. In the bustling dynamics of a city…

“Life is a flywheel”. I heard about the concept of the flywheel during a youtube binge. It didn’t seem more than a catchphrase waiting for dismissal. It came up again in a very consuming podcast. And it stuck big time. Applying the concept of the flywheel on our lives, I…