Lights out Alice!
Now that I have decided to dip my toe in the cut-throat, every-man/woman to himself/herself world of Business Administration, I realized that the first step for me would be to figure out my interests. I always believed in doing my homework before turning up for something, even if that something was as nonchalant as a new day or as opaque as life in general. Even when I was pursuing a M.tech degree, I seemed (or at least convinced myself of) to know what I wanted to pursue when I got into the program and had a vague idea (although I had a sneaking suspicion that it would not work out that way or the truth might be far from my visions) of where I would end up or what topics I would be researching in. All this background context brings me to the present morning, wherein the first thing I have taken up is figuring out things that pique my interest in the vast and as of yet uncharted waters of the Business Administration world.
Before diving down the rabbit hole that is my research methodology, I would like to list out my top two notably weak areas that would require immediate improvement in the coming months.
Now that I have decided to dip my toe in the cut-throat, every-man/woman to himself/herself world of Business Administration, I realized that the first step for me would be to figure out my interests. I always believed in doing my homework before turning up for something, even if that something was as nonchalant as a new day or as opaque as life in general. Even when I was pursuing a M.tech degree, I seemed (or at least convinced myself of) to know what I wanted to pursue when I got into the program and had a vague idea (although I had a sneaking suspicion that it would not work out that way or the truth might be far from my visions) of where I would end up or what topics I would be researching in. All this background context brings me to the present morning, wherein the first thing I have taken up is figuring out things that pique my interest in the vast and as of yet uncharted waters of the Business Administration world.
Before diving down the rabbit hole that is my research methodology, I would like to list out my top two notably weak areas that would require immediate improvement in the coming months.
- I have a habit of always seeing the grass on the other side as greener, not being content with what I have even though when I was on the other side, I was just as miserable with my situation. Be careful what you wish for, Alice!
- I have a pathetic habit of forgetting interactions, names and key takeaways from meetings with people. I am in general not a people person, but sadly in this field, you got to be one. Try harder to remember names and conversations along with key pointers during interactions Alice!
Now that I have cleared up the fact that I am a frail human who is just as broken as the next guy, let's start building a better tomorrow, beginning with finding out a few areas that can get the curious cat in me to awaken, just as the smell of fish awakens the ever-sleeping-in-weirder-places cat that you don't even own.
- Behavioral Economics: The witchcraft that deciphers psychological underpinnings that lead up to every decision that a human makes. It connects psychology to economics and financial decisions.
- Heuristics and Cognitive Biases:
- Pschological and Economical Malaise
- Fungibility
- Mental Accounting and the loss of pain
It is never enough, Alice!
