What Indian's Think of other Countries in their Mind???????

Pakistan: Beautiful girls and terrorists.

Bangladesh: Stupid and arrogant cricket team

Sri lanka: sanathjaysuria

Nepal: extension of india

Bhutan: beautiful nation

China: cheap electronics

Afghanistan: victim of policies of usa, Russia and Pakistan

Iran: new friend of india

Iraq: unsafe

Saudi arabia; how can women live there

Uae: expensive cars

Japan: fast Internet

South korea: copy of Japan

North korea: stupid dictator

Thailand: prostitition

Malaysia: MH370

Indonesia; cheap honeymoon island: bali

Australia: awesome cricket team

New zealand: one of the safest countries

Spain: How did they win their last fifa world cup?

Portugal: Ronaldo

Britain and UK: why are they still paying royalty to the Queen?

Usa: jobs mba and Ms

Canada: punjab

Brazil: sexy Latinos

Argentina: Messi Maradona and sexy Latinos

Mexico: drugs

All West indies islands: drugs and cricket team

Russia: vodka, beautiful girls, putin

Ukraine: why do they mess up with Russia?

Israel: awesome tech guys. They don't leave manali easily.

Germany; automobile industry

Italy: pizza and pasta

France: Charlie hebdo attack

Holland: Amsterdam and prostitition

Mongolia: descendants of genghis khan?

South africa: European colony

Egypt: pyramids

Nigeria: want to win a 100 crore lottery?

Drc: where's the food?

Republic of congo: is it a different country than Drc?

West africa: ebola

Somalia: pirates

Kenya: a nation which used to have a cricket team, currently fighting with all shabab

Morocco and tunisia: used to be awesome travel destinations before the terrorist attacks

Mauritius: what is it part of Africa?

Mozambique: our new source of pulses

Madagascar: animated movie. Is it a country?

Ireland: too white

Vietnam: won a war with usa

Kuwait: airlift movie

Jordan: is it a Muslim nation?

Kazakhstan: where's that?

Croatia: beautiful women

Eastern europe: econo

50 Daily habits for changing your life

1.       Keep water bowls: Some birds, like a sparrow, don’t migrate in search of water and die due to dehydration. Place water pots in your balcony, compound walls, or terrace to quench the thirst of birds.

2.      Respect customer care spokespersons: Customer care representatives go through a number of hate calls in a single day. End your call by saying ‘Have a nice day.’ A single line will bring a big smile on their face.

3.      Meditate Regularly: Stop giving excuses. Start with 1 minute of daily practice. When you start seeing positive results, you’ll automatically increase the timing.

4.      Laugh loud as you can: If you don’t like doing this exercise alone, join a laughing group. Laughter boosts the immune system by relieving physical tension and stress.

5.      Don’t waste your food: Before wasting your food, think about those people who can’t even get a meal for one time.

6.      Sleep with a dominant thought: Tap the power of the subconscious mind by repeating your main goal of life. Sleep with this big idea in your mind.

7.      Eat mindfully: Chew properly to have a proper digestion. Don’t eat fast. Enjoy the flavor of the food.

8.     Visualize: When everything looks dark and dull in reality, sketch a positive scenario. Visualize your end goals. It’ll give you an instant relief.

9.      Have a big heart: In sharing, giver receives more than the receiver because some things in life can’t be measured in physical terms only.

10.  Be open to learn from anyone: Set your ego aside while learning. Your subordinate, kids and any other person whom you think are a waste of time can teach you valuable lessons of life.

11.   Drink water with an empty stomach: Have 1-4 glasses of water in the before having anything in the morning. It cleanse your stomach.

12.  Listen more. Speak less: Do you know why we have two ears to listen and one mouth to speak? To absorb more and talk less. Don’t interrupt. Allow others to speak and then present your viewpoint.

13.  Think before you speak: You can’t get your words back. Pause and ponder before saying ill words about someone or sending a nasty mail. Your outburst can become a source of lifetime misery.

14.  Count backward when you are angry: Start counting from ten to one when you are about to explode.

15.   Be grateful for everything you have: We take things for granted because we have everything in front of us. Ask those who can’t even fulfill their basic needs.

16.  Don’t watch news channel before sleeping: To have a sound sleep, disconnect yourself from the news world.

17.   Start small: Move ahead in life with small steps. Track your progress on a daily basis. It doesn’t matter at what rate you are growing, what matters more is your persistent efforts.

18.  Accept your mistake: You won’t become small by accepting your fault. Don’t just accept it. Act on it to not repeat the same mistake in future.

19.  Make daily goals: Start with the end goals for the day in mind. Make daily targets help yourself not to deviate from the track.

20. Strategize your next day plans in advance: Plan your next day before going to sleep. Analyze the output of your daily goals and work out your next day plans accordingly.

21.  Say ‘thank you’ to strangers who help you: If someone is taking out time to help you, don’t act mean. When someone gives the direction for the lost route, for example, thank the person with a big smile on your face.

22. Read a book before sleeping: Instead of watching TV shows, take out 30 minutes after your last meal. Books open up your mind because you get insights from the great people.

23. Live in the present: What has happened has happened. What will happen will happen. Shape your past and future by living your present to the fullest.

24. Don’t offer money to beggars: Sadly, especially in India, we hear the news when police bursts begging rackets and rescues innocent children. The mafias, racket handlers, takes the money. Instead of offering money, provide food to beggars.

25.  Be the first to start the conversation: You won’t become small when you initiate the conversation.

26. Have the courage to say ‘No’: Raise your voice when your ideas don’t align with others. You are not a puppet. Have your opinion.

27.  Wake up early: Make the most of your morning time. As the day progresses, energy depletes in making decisions, meeting different people, and battling traffic.

28. Bow to the rising sun: Cherish the beauty of the rising sun. Being a nature lover, I bow down in front of the sun because it offers sunlight without expecting nothing in return.

29. Jog: Apart from strengthening muscles, jogging boost your mood and reduce stress. Increase the intensity by keeping a check on your resistance levels.

30. Interact with like-minded individuals: Fuel your passion by spending time with people of your taste. Stay away from those who hampers your growth.

31.  Do things without any expectation: Help elderly woman to cross the road. Assist a visually challenged person in reaching the destination. If you are sharing a cab, tell the stranger that you’ll pay for the ride.

32. Don’t drink water between meals: If you want to have water, have it at least half an hour before and after the meal.

33. Make your bed: After waking up, arrange the covers to make your bed neat and clean. It helps in making your more organized for the whole day. It may sound simple daily routine, but give it a try.

34. Wash your mouth after completing the meal: Don’t be lazy. It prevents bacteria from attacking the tooth enamel.

35.  Focus on your breathing for a proper sleep: Close your eyes and concentrate on your breathing pattern.

36. Don’t come to conclusion instantly: Never judge the person’s characteristics on the first look. A person, who looks cunning, may turn out a friendly guy or an individual who looks friendly, may plot against you.

37.  Don’t find faults in others: When you point a finger at others, three fingers point towards you. Instead of finding fault in others, mind your own business.

38. Give some space between meals and sleep: Sleeping immediately after a meal makes it difficult to digest the food. Heartburn, a burning sensation that crops up from stomach to chest and even up to your throat, disturbs your sleep.

39. Emote your feelings: Say ‘I love you’ to your loved ones and comfort them with a warm hug.

40. Talk with your servants respectfully: The way the person interacts with their workers reflect their personality. Respect them because no one is doing a favor on anyone.

41.  Give space: Allow people to live life on their terms. Let them unleash their creative side. Never be the reason behind someone’s stunted growth.

42. See the good in everyone: No one is perfect, but everyone has something good about them. Target those good areas to evolve.

43. Keep a journal: Note down your daily feelings. You don’t have to follow any guidelines. Write anything which comes in your mind. Go with the flow.

44. Maintain your calm: It is easy to loose cool during a heated argument or waiting at a red light. Sometimes, things are not in your control.

45.  Don’t get attached: People get confused between love and attachment. Attachment gives birth to dependency Love is complete in itself. It doesn’t scream desperation.

46. Stretch out between work: You are a human, not a machine. Do a simple stretch out. Give rest to eyes by seeing away from your screen.

47.  Adopt a deathbed mentality: Start your day by thinking it to be your last day. It brings in It helps in focusing on all the important things that you have been putting off for a long time. Time is now or never.

48. Give and take respect: Give respect, but don’t allow anyone to use you for selfish motives. Maintain your dignity.

49. Be natural: What’s the point of fooling people when you are actually making a fool of yourself? If people doesn’t accept your natural side, let it be. It is their loss, not yours.

50. Dance like a madman: Lock your door. Turn on the music, if you want. Forget about the steps. Relax your body without caring about anyone.

Facts of Albert Einstein

Considered as 20^th Century’s most influential physicist, Albert Einstein is one of the most popular scientists of modern science. He was the greatest genius of our times whose contributions to physics have been matched only by a handful of others in history. Even so, nowadays Einstein is associated just with one formula: E = mc2. It has been called the most famous formula in the world, and even people who have no idea what mass-energy equivalence is still know it. However, there was a lot more to the man than that. 

1. Einstein was born in Germany on March 14, 1879. The place of birth was Ulm, Württemberg. He died on April 18, 1955 at the age of 76 in Princeton, New Jersey, United States.

2. At birth his head had a weird shape. It is being said that the back of his head was very large but within the first few weeks, the shape gradually changed to normal.

3. He was born in a middle-class Jew family and had a sister named Maja who was two years younger to him. 

4. Sources say that Einstein was plagued by speech difficulty and could not speak until he turned 4 years old.

5. Albert Einstein completed his elementary education from Munich’s Luitpold Gymnasium.

6. The first scientific paper he wrote was at the age of 16. The paper was titled “The Investigation of the State of Aether in Magnetic Fields.” 

7. He never failed math. This is a popular “fact” promoted on the internet, maybe in an attempt to relate to genius. However, it is simply not true. Overall, Einstein was an average student, but math was one area where he excelled, unsurprisingly. 

8. Einstein encouraged the development of the nuclear bomb. His involvement is often misinterpreted, with some claiming that he helped create the atom bomb. In reality, what he did was write a letter to President FDR encouraging him to begin work on such a weapon, which led to the Manhattan Project. Although a dedicated pacifist and, later, an anti-nuke spokesman, Einstein was convinced that America needed the atomic bomb before the Nazis.

9. He was a great musician. If the whole “genius” thing didn’t work out, Einstein could have become a violinist. His mother played piano so he had the love of music instilled in him—via violin lessons—at the young age of five. 

10. He could have been the President of Israel. When Israel’s first president, Chaim Weizmann, died, Einstein was offered the position, but he declined.

11.  He married his cousin. After Einstein divorced his first wife, Mileva Maric, he married his cousin, Elsa Lowenthal. He was, actually, quite a bad husband to his first wife in their later years. He had affairs he never tried to hide, he moved the entire family to Berlin without discussion, and treated her more as a servant than a wife.

12. He won the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics. This alone isn’t particularly surprising. What is surprising is the fact that he didn’t receive it for the general or special theory of relativity, but rather for the photoelectric effect. 

13. He loved to sail. Ever since university, Einstein sailed as a hobby. But by his own admission, he never made a particularly good sailor. In fact, he didn’t even know how to swim. 

14. He really didn’t like socks, and usually didn’t wear them. In fact, in a letter to Elsa, he bragged about getting away “without wearing socks” while at Oxford.

15. He had an illegitimate daughter. This wasn’t known until the 1980s, but according to correspondence between Albert and Mileva it was determined that the two had a daughter in 1902 called Lieserl. At one point, all mention of her in letters stopped so her fate is unknown. 

16. His brain was stolen. After Einstein died, the pathologist who did his autopsy took his brain without permission. He eventually got the permission necessary from Einstein’s son, but he was fired from Princeton when he refused to turn the brain over. He kept it for over forty years before finally returning it in 1998. 

17. In 1894, his father’s electrical company failed to get an important contract and the family was forced to move to Italy’s Milan. Einstein was however, left at Munich’s boarding house to complete his studies. Einstein was very unhappy about the idea of joining compulsory military duty when he reached the appropriate age and hence, he decided to join his parents in Milan. He left school without notice by using a doctor’s note and went to Italy. 

18. Einstein then joined Eidgenössische Polytechnische Schule (Swiss Federal Polytechnic School) based in Zürich, Switzerland. His exceptional talent in mathematics and physics grabbed attention but he actually failed in other subjects of the entrance exam. School authorities decided to accept him provided he completed his formal schooling. So, he joined Jost Winteler’s special high school and graduated at the age of 17.  

19. At the age of 17 Einstein also renounced his German citizenship to avoid military service. During his schooling with Jost Winteler, he became very close to the family and fell in love with Marie – Winteler’s daughter. He also enrolled in Zürich’s school after renouncing his German citizenship. 

20. In 1902, Einstein’s financial conditions were awful. He did not have a job and his father’s company went bankrupt. That is when Einstein started tutoring children. 

21. Einstein eventually grabbed a Swiss clerical job after a recommendation from Marcel Grossman’s father. Marcel Grossman was Einstein’s lifelong friend. 

22. Einstein’s father died shortly after that because of illness but before death, approved of Einstein’s and Maric’s wedding. The couple got married in 1903. The next year they had a son named Hans Albert and in 1910 they had a second son named Eduard. 

23. During his study at the polytechnic school, Einstein went through the electromagnetic theories that were developed by James Maxwell – a Scottish Physicist. 

24. Einstein, through the studies of those theories, had found out that speed of light was constant and this fact was not known to Maxwell. Einstein’s discovery was a direct violation of Newton’s laws of motion. This led Einstein to develop the relativity principle. 

25. The year 1905 is known as the ‘Miracle Year’ of Einstein. That year he submitted his doctorate paper and 4 of his papers were published in one of the best know physic journals – the Annalen der Physik. The 4 papers that were published were Equivalence of Matter and Energy, Special Relativity, Brownian Motion and Photoelectric Effect. These papers eventually altered the very fabric of modern physics. 

26. It was in his paper on ‘Equivalence of Matter and Energy’ where Einstein gave his famous formula E=mc². 

27. After gaining popularity, Einstein had to frequently travel and this started causing troubles in his family because of poor finances.

28. Eventually, Einstein concluded that the marriage was over and got into a relation with his cousin named Elsa Löwenthal and later married her. 

29. Mileva Maric and Albert Einstein eventually divorced in 1919 on an agreement that if ever Einstein wins a noble prize, Maric will receive the entire money that he wins. 

30. Einstein had actually set some weird rules for his first wife Maric. The rules included – ‘she had to stop talking when Einstein asked her to’, ‘she had to serve him three meals a day’ and ‘she could not expect any physical intimacy from him’.

31. In many letters that Einstein wrote to Elsa, he actually acknowledged the fact that he was involved in several extramarital affairs. 

32. His first wife Maric actually received the money he won as a part of Noble Prize.

33. Einstein’s eyeballs are preserved in a safe box in New York City.

Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Listening To Music

The brain can work in ways we can’t comprehend. In numerous studies they have been able to see just how much normal things like music can effect, and even alter, it completely. These facts about music will give you an insight into the complexity of your own mind.

1.The chills you get when you listen to music, is mostly caused by the brain releasing dopamine while anticipating the peak moment of a song.

Dopamine is a feel-good chemical released by the brain. This chemical is directly involved in motivation, as well as addiction. These studies found a biological explanation for why music always has been such a huge part of emotional events around the world since the beginning of human history.

2.Music that gives you chills might make you more generous too.

Research published last year in the journal Frontiers In Psychology found that people were more likely to choose to give money to others if their favorite chill-inducing was playing. If music that they said they didn’t like was playing instead, they gave significantly less money. Just 22 people took part, so take the results with a pinch of salt, but it’s an intriguing finding.

3.Listening to sad music provokes more nostalgia than sadness.

A study published last year in PLOS One looked into why people seek out and actually like listening to sad music.

People in the study reported that sad music brought up “a wide range of complex and partially positive emotions, such as nostalgia, peacefulness, tenderness, transcendence, and wonder,” write the study authors.

Surprisingly, nostalgia, rather than sadness, was the most frequently reported emotion.

4.There are few activities in life that utilizes the entire brain and music is one of them.

With Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FMRI), a research team recorded a group of individuals who were listening to music. They found that listening to music recruits the auditory areas, and employs large-scale neural networks in the brain. In fact, they believe music can activate emotional, motor, and creative areas of the brain.

5.Cows produce more milk when listening to relaxing music.

As reported by the BBC in 2001, listening to relaxing music can lead to cows producing more milk. The study involved 1,000 cows being exposed to fast, slow, or no music for 12 hours a day over a nine-week period.

When listening to the slow music (e.g. “Everybody Hurts” by REM) the cows produced 3% more milk per day than when they listened to fast music (e.g. “Space Cowboy” by Jamiroquai).

“Calming music can improve milk yield, probably because it reduces stress,” Dr Adrian North, who carried out the study, told the BBC.

According to Modern Farmer, music is something the dairy industry had been playing about with before the psychologists got involved too. Dairy farmer Kristine Spadgenske from Minnesota told them: “At our farm you can always tell when the radio is not on because the cows are way more jumpy and less likely to come into the parlor.”

6.Repetitive choruses are the key to a hit song.

Joseph Nunes at the University of South Carolina looked into what makes a song commercially successful in a paper published last year in the Journal of Consumer Psychology.

“Once you got on the hot 100, the more you repeated the chorus, the more word repetition, the less complex the song, the better it did,” Nunes told NPR earlier this year.

In fact, for each extra repetition of the chorus “a song’’s likelihood of making it to Number One, as opposed to staying at the bottom of the Billboard chart, increases by 14.5 percent,” Nunes and his co-authors wrote. There is a limit, though. Nunes and his colleagues saw a “ceiling affect”, above which more repetitions harmed, instead of helped, a song’s chances.

7.Playing music regularly will physically alter your brain structure.

Brain plas­tic­ity refers to the brain’s abil­ity to change through­out life. Changes asso­ci­ated with learn­ing occur mostly at the con­nec­tions between neu­rons. When studying musicians, they found that the cor­tex vol­ume was high­est in pro­fes­sional musi­cians, inter­me­di­ate in ama­teur musicians, and lowest in non-musicians.

8.The brain responds to music the same way it responds to something that you eat.

 As stated above, dopamine is a chemical released by the brain. This chemical is connected with the feeling of euphoria which is associated with addiction, sex, and even eating. Dopamine is what enables a person to feel the pleasures of such things. A study using only instrumental music proves that anticipation for a musical rush released the same kind of reactions in the brain as anticipating the taste of your food.

9.The “mere exposure effect” makes us like certain music just because we hear it a lot.

But, crucially, there’s a point at which it then really really starts to grate – and you get an inverted-U graph like the one above.

In an essay at Aeon, Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis, director of the music cognition lab at the University of Arkansas, explains why repetition makes us like music: “People seem to misattribute their increased perceptual fluency – their improved ability to process the triangle or the picture or the melody – not to the prior experience, but to some quality of the object itself.”

Basically, hearing a song you’ve heard before makes you feel clever, because your brain has already figured it out.

10.Listening to music while exercising can significantly improve your work-out performance.

Dissociation is a diversionary technique which lowered the perceptions of effort. This technique can divert the mind from feelings of fatigue, and heighten positive mood states like vigor. By using music during low to moderate exercise intensities, you will find yourself with an overall more pleasurable experience while working out.

11.An emotional attachment could be the reason for your favorite song choice.

Favorite songs are often context-dependent. Even though many people often change their favorite song depending on the most recent releases, it is proven that long-lasting preferences are due mainly to an emotional attachment to a memory associated with the song.

12.Your heartbeat changes to mimics the music you listen to.

Music is found to modulate heart rate, blood pressure, and respiration. The cardiovascular system mirrored deflating decrescendos, and swelling crescendos in a study of 24 volunteers. Distinguishing changes in sound patterns were even found to be equipped in those as small as a developing fetus.

13. Listening to happy vs. sad music can affect the way you perceive the world around you.

The brain always compares the information that comes through the eyes with what it expects about the world, based on what you know. The final results in our mind are what we perceive as our reality. Therefore, happy songs that lift your spirits make you see the world around you differently than that of a sad person.

14. An “ear worm” is a song that you can’t seem to get out of your head.

An ear worm is a cognitive itch in your brain. This “brain itch” is a need for the brain to fill in the gaps in a song’s rhythm. The auditory cortex is a part of your brain that will automatically fill in a rhythm of a song. In other words, your brain kept “singing” long after the song had ended.

15.Music triggers activity in the same part of the brain that releases Dopamine, the “pleasure chemical”.

The nucleus accumbens is a part of your brain that releases Dopamine during eating, and sex. The most interesting part is that the nucleus accumbens is just a small part of the brain that gets affected by music. It also affects the amygdala, which is the part of the brain used to process emotion for music

16.Music is often prescribed to patients with Parkinson’s disease and stroke victims.

Music therapy has been around for decades. Music triggers networks of neurons into organized movement. The part of the brain the processes movement also overlaps speech networks. These two key elements help patients overcome the obstacles that most effect them such as basic motor skills, and speech difficulties.

17.According to a study, Learning a musical instrument can improve fine motor and reasoning skills.

In a study of children, it revealed that those with three or more years of musical training preformed better in fine motor skills and auditory discrimination abilities then those who had none. They even tested better for vocabulary and reasoning skills, even though those are quite separate from music training.