Comments on: Blink !

By: Abhinav

Abhinav — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 10:16:36 +0000

I think I agree with your missing-the-question-and-getting-to-know-stuff theory, although most people don’t really think that way.The QM is likely to labeled a malevolent, sadistic freak. Schadenfreude is alive and kicking after all.

I went to an open quiz which had these questions about Western Classical Musicians, Jazz pieces and unknown sporting personalities(Renee Richards, Antonin Panenka, Frank Chester, Sale & Pelletier etc). And my team was pretty much massacred[To clarify, Delhi quizzing generally never moves beyond Metal, Progressive Rock and Formula fucking 1].

But, I did take the pains to find out about all these things following the quiz the end results of which include growing a great great interest in Western Classical and listening to a lot of Coltrane, Miles Davis etc. Although at the end of it all I wonder whether the rest of my googling(reading about great cricket umpires, tennis coaches, boxing trainers etc) was worth it at all. Which I think is somewhere tied to the question: Why quizzing? Quite often when making quizzes the question that I find myself asking is: why should someone know this?

By: thesongremainsthesame

thesongremainsthesame — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:57:35 +0000

As Krithika said, SPQC is the best thing to happen to SP. Cheers to the chai and the misal pav which sparked this idea!

By: pratiksha

pratiksha — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 09:50:31 +0000

hi there.was jus bloghopping and as i have read the entire book having found some1 who has read it 2 cudnt stop myself 4m commenting.where better to learn human psychology than in engineering!blink is a very interesting and thoughtful work of gladwell.

By: Rohit

Rohit — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:01:59 +0000

I love SPQC too. It was something I really wanted to do for a long time and it just came together during the trip I suppose. Thank you (and many many others) for all your support. BE Electrical may leave at the end of this semester, but I hope SPQC flourishes for many many years to come.

By: dimple

dimple — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:41:04 +0000

I read couple of pages and I don’t really remember what happened after that. I just remember I liked whatever I did read. Hmm, should really search for it and start reading.

And thank you for SPQC

By: Shraddha

Shraddha — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:22:49 +0000

BlinK! Read the start..cdnt complete it..frm wht i read here it must get preferential treatment..
ya human behaviour n pysche is by far the most interesting thing coz it has no pre-conceived facts or algos to decipher it…

keep the quizzin thing goin on..wantin to bcum a regular-n ya-thr mite b a qst or 2 dat i can ans;elz its all bout discoverin for me…

u can try brian weiss..related to pyscho

By: Deepak

Deepak — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:17:14 +0000

I love SPQC
i doubt the feeling is mutual!!

By: annnanymous

annnanymous — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:44:50 +0000

1-Human brain happens to be the most fascinating thing around..

2-Trust me!

I’ve always loved learning people…and if there is any subject that really enamors me it’s gotcha be Human behaviour!

I can get really judgemental about people.and trust me i have been atrociously wrong almost every single time.and there is no better way to learn…

Small suggestion,since you seemed to be intriguied by psychology read about Gandhi and Richard Branson…

PS-I want that book!:)

By: thesongremainsthesame

thesongremainsthesame — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:01:15 +0000

Shows how much more knowledge you have compared to us, and its true! And what happened to that Insignia thing?

By: acousticity

acousticity — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:55:18 +0000

its more of ‘preserving self-esteem’ than ‘massaging it’….some of us are quite clueless about almost all the questions at SPQC…but then…as you put it…”I feel very content when I miss a question for I get to know about something that has been around me but has eluding me for ages.”…