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How a fruitful doctor patient consultation can be engineered, principle of positivity in play

Submitted by Atanu Chaudhuri on Wed, 02/05/2018 - 13:39

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I was a bit surprised to receive the call from my friend Ajay yesterday morning at 11. He never called at 11. If he calls, it is usually evening time. He should be busy with his affairs and don't have any reason to remember me now. Our work together will be in May. Not now in mid-April. Just as I guessed, there was a surprise in store for me...

How a real life problem is solved - to buy or not to buy a new washing machine

Submitted by Atanu Chaudhuri on Fri, 02/06/2017 - 18:03

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This was a simple act of domain mapping using abstraction. The nature of fault was generalized to body repair, detaching it from the domain of washing machines. We were now on the lookout for a reliable mechanic in the more general higher layer domain of metal body repair...

How to solve a difficult SSC CGL level problem in a few conceptual steps, Trigonometry 8

Submitted by Atanu Chaudhuri on Mon, 08/05/2017 - 14:30

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This problem in contrast to the earlier one looked difficult. The challenge was on - would we be able to achieve its elegant solution? Not always we know about the end in the beginning of our journey, but finally concept based strategic approach provided the initial breakthrough and then led us to the elegant solution in a few more steps...

How to solve difficult SBI PO level reasoning puzzles in a few simple steps 1

Submitted by Atanu Chaudhuri on Mon, 23/01/2017 - 01:11

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We find that a number of relatively difficult logic analysis problems essentially belonging to the Assignment logic analysis class are used frequently in leading Competitive exams, Interviews and other tests. In a short series of sessions we will cover this important class of logic analysis problems...

How to solve a simple looking problem with a twist, domain mapping

Submitted by Atanu Chaudhuri on Sun, 18/12/2016 - 14:54

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In a problem that looks simple but somehow wrong and violates the commonly known concepts, power of abstraction may often overcome the apparently unknown and uncertain state and helps to reach the elegant solutions. On the way to the solution, usually a higher level rich concept is created the precise form of which was hidden just around the corner...

Principle of disproportion saved us millions this time

Submitted by Atanu Chaudhuri on Wed, 03/08/2016 - 19:28

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All things in nature are in proportions that we accept and have become used to. Mimicking nature we build our things that also follow rough proportional relationships that we are not always explicitly aware. But when such a proportional relationship is violated outright we might feel something is wrong, if we have the principle of disproportion imbued in us.

What to gift?

Submitted by Atanu Chaudhuri on Mon, 25/07/2016 - 01:27

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What to gift is a problem that bothered me for long years. On social occasions giving gift has become a businesslike activity. Fully managed procedures, not much of a bother and decision making involved. Sometimes though an occasion arises out of the blue when you won't know what to do...

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