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Traffic rule violation and hefty fines

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Center has declared Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act, 2019 using which different states are charging a hefty amount of fines from the citizen for violating traffic rules. Death and Probability: Death in the roads is about probability or chance. There are many ways to decrease the death rates in roads. It includes wearing helmets, following the signals, roads without potholes, wider roads. To follow signals, one needs to know and learn different kinds of traffic signals, and if you are driving on roads, you need to know the driving. For the purpose of evaluating driving skill and the knowledge about traffic signals, RTOs are providing the driving license. All these processes are meant for decreasing the probability of dying on the roads. But in reality, the probability is context-dependent. Take of example, you are travelling a short distance, in narrow roads where traffic is usually high, you can't drive faster than a slow cycle. Whats probability of dying here? The main cause of dea...

Learning about Relationships, Emotions and Happiness

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What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness So what have we learned? What are the lessons that come from the tens of thousands of pages of information that we've generated on these lives? Well, the lessons aren't about wealth or fame or working harder and harder. The clearest message that we get from this 75-year study is this: Good relationships keep us happier and healthier . Period. Robert Waldinger, Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, Zen priest Emotional Safety: When we talk about discipline, a lot of time we are punitive because it's faster, restorative takes more time.  Using restorative measures is hard, because learning about emotions is hard, it requires lots of reading and research. Master most of the vocabularies of emotions. Study each of them in detail, learn about its definitions, compare and contrast the terms and find out subtle differences. Find out books of best researcher and psychologist, and go through them. Does punishment prevent cr...