Topic
Mind
How thinking works, and where it reliably goes wrong.
34 cards
Need vs Want
The one-question filter
A need keeps life working; a want makes it nicer.
The Ponzi Scheme
Returns from nowhere
A fake investment that pays old investors with new investors' money.
Opportunity Cost
The price of what you did not choose
The value of the best thing given up to get something else.
The Stress Response
Your body's fire alarm
The body's automatic reaction to danger, real or imagined.
Emotional Intelligence
Feelings carry information
Noticing feelings, naming them, and choosing what to do next.
The Growth Mindset
The power of "yet"
Treating ability as something built by effort, not fixed at birth.
The Negativity Bias
Why bad news sticks
The brain's habit of weighing bad news more heavily than good.
Resilience
The muscle that grows under load
The speed at which a person recovers after something goes wrong.
Hygiene
Twenty seconds that changed medicine
Everyday cleaning habits that stop germs from spreading.
Body Image
The comparison that is unfair by design
How a person pictures their own body, and how accurate that picture is.
Self-Awareness
The skill behind every other skill
Noticing your own thoughts and actions while they are happening.
The OODA Loop
The decision cycle that wins
A four-step cycle for making decisions quickly under pressure.
The Bystander Effect
Why nobody helps, and how to break it
The tendency of a crowd to leave the helping to somebody else.
Lateral Thinking
The problem is the frame
Solving a problem by questioning the rules nobody stated.
The Scientific Method
The loop that built the modern world
A repeating loop of question, guess, test, and honest result.
Situational Awareness
The skill no one teaches and everyone needs
Noticing what is around before anything needs noticing.
Curiosity
The skill behind every card in this set
The urge to find out, and the willingness to admit not knowing.
The Algorithm
The editor you never chose
The set of rules deciding what a feed shows and in what order.
The Filter Bubble
The echo chamber you built without knowing
The narrowed view that comes from seeing only agreeable things.
Media Literacy
The headline is not the story
Reading news with an eye on who wrote it, and why.
The Attention Economy
You are the product
The business of holding attention and selling it to advertisers.
Confirmation Bias Online
The lie your brain prefers
The habit of trusting evidence that agrees with what is already believed.
Screen Time
The experiment no one approved
The hours spent looking at screens, and what is known about the effect.
Logical Fallacies
The argument that sounds right but is not
Arguments that follow a broken pattern while sounding convincing.
Diversity
India's multiplication factor
The range of languages, faiths, and backgrounds living in one country.
Ethics
When there is no clean answer
Reasoning about right and wrong when every choice costs something.
SMART Goals
The five-word filter for any goal
A goal written so that anyone could tell whether it was met.
The Eisenhower Matrix
The president's inbox method
A way of sorting tasks by what is urgent and what is important.
The Pomodoro Technique
25 minutes of undivided focus
Working in timed blocks with short breaks between them.
Spaced Repetition
How to remember what you learn
Reviewing material at widening intervals so it is not forgotten.
Professional Etiquette
Small signals, large conclusions
The small signals that shape how seriously someone is taken at work.
Habits
The compound interest of behaviour
An action repeated until it runs without deciding to do it.
Grit
When talent and persistence compete
Sticking with something difficult long after the excitement wears off.
The Backup
Three copies, two kinds, one elsewhere
The rule that turns a lost device into a nuisance instead of a disaster.