From carrying parts of the first rocket on a Bicycle to carrying 104 Satellites on a single Rocket.

The Story of - ISRO.

A Thread 🧵👇

1/ India's journey into the space research began with the radio waves and ionosphere research conducted by S K Mitra in the 1920s.

2/ From 1920s to 1940s, S K Mitra and his group conducted tons of experiments and investigations about the ionosphere that seeded the interest in the ionosphere, cosmic rays, and space research in India.

3/ The late 1940s is when researchers in India started coordinating space research. In 1945, Dr. Homi Bhabha established the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) with financial support from the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust.

4/ Around the same time, in 1947, Dr. Vikram Sarabhai had returned to India and established Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) in Ahmedabad to further research on cosmic rays after his doctorate from Cambridge.

Why Motivational Videos Are Destroying You and Why You're Drawn To Them

“Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot.”
Jim Rohn

First, Let us define what motivation is

Motivation is an emotion that you feel as a drive to fulfil a desire and the intensity of the motivation varies in direct proportion to the importance of that desire to you.

Now let's examine your habit of watching motivational videos

1. You binge watch videos

It’s fun to watch motivational videos. The problem is that this become like Netflix. You consume without ever doing anything.

The problem is that you actually feel like you’re accomplishing something, but then you go back to regular routine

2. When you're feeling uninspired, uninterested, lethargic, you immediately switch to watching motivational videos

Observe that in these moments, you decide to get motivated by an external stimulus

External stimuli won't last long until you have an inner flame to achieve

10 tricks that trigger you to spend money.

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No currency ($) signs.

You’ll notice it in restaurant menus.

And even retail shops.

You spend more when you don’t see the dollar sign.

It reduces the “pain of paying”.

Supersized Carts.

Shoppers don’t like to push around empty carts.

Larger carts lead to spending 40% more.

If you want to avoid overspending…

Consider grabbing a basket or a smaller cart.

Subscription Services.

Amazon Prime.. Netflix…

How many subscriptions do you have and don’t use?

They call it “inertia”…

Once you subscribe, it’s a battle to get out.

Nostalgia.

Old games… Collectible cards…

Memories make shoppers happy.

This blast of emotion leads to a buy.

Notice it when they release a “throwback” product.