Impact of movies in our Lives

Well today as i was watching a movie a thought came in my mind, as we all watch movies in some part of life, so some movies inspire us whereas some makes us laugh, some scares. The matter of fact is we love whatever is shown. Have you ever felt your life being a movie??

Well if not do compare your life with a movie, I assure you ll find a story similar to yours tooo.

The millisecond that Dumb and Dumber clicks into focus on the television screen, something magical happens to me. It can be a terrible day, a stressful day, or a sick day, but within seconds of seeing Jim Carrey's bowl cut, I'm 10 years old again. The number of movies I have once memorized is small (The Lion King, A Few Good Men, and, inexplicably, While You Were Sleeping), but Dumb and Dumber is perhaps the only one where I have reasonably thought, "I could perform this entire film from start to finish, on my own." On multiple occasions in college, I think I tried.

I'm a creature of repetition when it comes to entertainment: Law and Ordermarathons drift by on lazy Saturday afternoons, Arrested Development episodes stream at night, and certain lugubrious British singers, particularly those sounding like they have a cold, play relentlessly in my earbuds. In all the hours I've spent re-consuming movies, shows, books, and songs, I could have learned a real skill, like playing an instrument or speaking several languages. Instead, I've perfected fake skills, like performing an uncanny impersonation of Jack Nicholson's final courtroom monologue.

Going back to the same pop-culture fare for seconds, thirds, and thirtieths isn't so abnormal. If anything, my re-consumption habits are tame compared to some of you, who have have read Harry Potter more than 10 times, watched Fridaymore than 100 times, and spent more of your waking life with The West Wingthan Aaron Sorkin. Musicologists estimate that for every hour of music-listening in the typical person's lifetime, 54 minutes are spent with songs we've already heard. Forget the next big thing. We're all suckers for the last big thing.

Related Story

Rewatching All 16 Coen Brothers Movies

Pop culture is a relentless machine of newness and manufactured surprise. We queue around the block for new comic-book-movie installments and crash HBO Go to watch season finales. And yet, I have spent 100 hours of my life watching a movie I could perform verbatim in my living room.

Why do we spend so much time with stories whose endings we already know?

* * *

The question "why do people do the same thing over and over?" has entranced philosophers, anthropologists, economists, and psychologists for centuries. "That which is repeated has been, otherwise it could not be repeated, but the very fact that it has been makes the repetition into something new,” wrote Kierkegaard (whom I have not re-read).

The most durable theories fit roughly into four categories: habits, addictions, rituals, and status-quo bias.

Habits, like going for a run to begin your day, are regular and automatic. We don’t even have to think about them, and that's part of their value. Addictions, like smoking, are like habits on evil steroids. They are unmanageable and lead to physical dependence. Then there are rituals, like Thanksgiving or wearing lucky socks before presentations. Unlike addictions, we choose our rituals to be symbolic and expressive rather than be ruled by them. Unlike habits, they’re infrequent.

Finally there's status-quo bias, the observation that people tend to stick with previous decisions, because the cost of coming to a new decision is mentally exhausting. Perhaps you recognize one of these excuses ...

• "I don't love this job, but whatever, I don't want to look for a new one."
• "[I've already decided for reasons I don't remember that] Global warming is a myth, and you can't persuade me otherwise."
• "No, I won't go to Club Monaco. Gap's pants are fine. I'm a Gap person!"

When Cristel Antonia Russell and Sidney Levy interviewed people who had re-read a book, re-watched a movie, or revisited a sentimental site, their experiences didn't neatly fit into any of these categories. Instead, Russell and Levy found that people sought out familiar entertainment for specific reasons—to recapture a lost feeling, for example, or to appreciate the passage of time. Summing up their research, here are four reasons why so many people prefer their entertainment stuck on repeat.

The Simple Reason

The least complicated reason why people re-watch a movie (e.g.) is that ... well, they really like that movie!

If this explanation sounds too unsophisticated for you, feel free to use intensely multi-syllabic names for the phenomenon, like “reconstructive consumption." That's the term Russell and Levy use to describe interviewees who re-watched episodes of Battlestar Galactica and Seinfeld to remind themselves what happened and pick up on smaller details that they could appreciate once they caught up to the overall plot.

Watching something again and again seems like it would make entertainment lose its initial appeal. But psychologists have found that repetition breeds affection. Familiar fare requires less mental energy to process, and when something is easy to think about, we tend to consider it good. A movie we've seen seven times before is blissfully easy to process.

The scientific term for this is "mere exposure effect," meaning that we like something more merely because we've been previously exposed to it. So there is evidence not only that we replay songs that we like, but also that—up to a certain point!—we like songs the more often that we play them.

HAve a look at this documentry the four horseman you will love it i guess for sure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fbvquHSPJU

Motivation: A growth compliment of life.

Do you ever feel there’s a greater being inside of you just bursting to get out?  You can feel its presence sometimes, can’t you?  It’s the voice that encourages you to really make something of your life.  When you act congruently with that voice, it’s like you’re a whole new person.  You feel like a god in a human body.  You’re bold and courageous.  You’re strong.  You’re unstoppable.

But then reality sets in, and soon those moments are history.  Where did that powerful voice go?  Were you merely suffering from delusions of grandeur?

It isn’t hard to temporarily put yourself into an emotional state of power.  Just go to any Tony Robbins’ concert seminar, and he’ll have you dancing in the aisles feeling totally motivated.  Put on your favorite fast-tempo music, stand tall, breathe strong, chest out, shoulders back.  Strut around like a superhero.  Shout, “Yes!”  Pound your chest a few times for good measure.  You’ll look like a dolt, but this does actually work.

But then you go home, and the emotional motivation fades away.  Your great ideas now seem impractical.  How many times have you been temporarily inspired with an idea like, “I want to start my own business,” and then a week later it’s forgotten?  You come up with inspiring ideas when you’re motivated, but you fail to maintain that level of motivation through the action phase.

So how do you reach the point of high motivation and stay there?

Emotional motivation

Tony Robbins says the key to motivation is state management.  This means conditioning yourself to feel a certain way via techniques like anchoring (connecting an emotion to a physical trigger).  When Tony pounds his chest while speaking, he’s firing off anchors he previously conditioned.  The downside is that you need to keep firing off these anchors as well as periodically reconditioning them to keep your motivation up.  That means lots and lots of chest pounding.

As another motivational method, Tony suggests writing down the pleasure you associate to a task as well as the pain of not doing it.  Again the idea here is to stir up your emotions, so you’ll be motivated to take action.  This type of motivation is usually short-lived, even when the emotions involved are very intense.

I studied and practiced these kinds of emotional motivation techniques extensively during my 20s.  In the long run, I didn’t find them particularly effective.  My intellect saw right through all the chest pounding.  The logical part of my mind was ultimately dissatisfied with attempts to induce motivation through emotional manipulation.

Have you ever seen one of those rah-rah motivational speakers?  If the speaker is good, s/he will have an emotional effect on you and get you to feel motivated.  But within a day or two, that emotional boost fades away, and you’re back to normal.  You can listen to hundreds of motivational speakers and experience an emotional yo-yo effect, but it doesn’t last.  I think this is especially common with technically minded people.  We’re accustomed to thinking with our heads.  We’re still emotional creatures on some level, but our emotional B.S. detectors periodically scrub our minds free of anything that doesn’t satisfy our logic.

Intellectual motivation

I used to get frustrated when my emotional conditioning fizzled out after a while.  Eventually I realized that being guided by intellect, not emotion, wasn’t such a bad thing after all.  I just had to learn to use my mind as an effective motivational tool.  I stopped using emotional motivation techniques and decided to see if I could motivate myself intellectually.  I figured that if I wasn’t feeling motivated to go after a particular goal, maybe there was a logical reason for it.  Perhaps I just wasn’t taking my logic far enough to see it.

I noted that when I had strong intellectual reasons for doing something, I usually didn’t have trouble taking action.  I’m motivated to exercise regularly because doing so is intelligent and reasonable.  I don’t need to emotionally pump myself up to go to the gym.  I just go.

But when my mind thinks a goal is wrong on some level, I usually feel blocked.  I eventually realized that this was my mind’s way of telling me the goal was a mistake to begin with.

Sometimes a goal seems to make sense on one level, but when you look further upstream, it becomes clear the goal is ill advised.  Suppose you work in sales, and you set a goal to increase your income by 20% by becoming a more effective salesperson.  That seems like a reasonable and intelligent goal.  But maybe you’re surprised to find yourself encountering all sorts of internal blocks when you try to pursue it.  You should feel motivated, but you just don’t.  The problem may be that on a deeper level, your mind knows you don’t want to be working in sales at all.  You really want to be a musician.  So no matter how hard you push yourself in your sales career, it will always be a motivational dead end.  You’ll never convince your mind to give up on your more important dream of being a musician.

When you set goals that are too small and too timid, you suffer a perpetual lack of motivation.  Try all the emotional conditioning techniques you want, but you’re wasting your time.  Deep down you already know the truth.  You just need to summon the courage to acknowledge your true desires.  Then you’ll have to deal with the self-doubt and fear that’s been making you think too small.  There’s no getting around that if you want to experience lasting motivation.  Ironically, the real key to motivation is to set goals that scare you.

I recommend working through these kinds of blocks in your journal.  Type a question like, “Why am I feeling unmotivated to achieve this goal?”  Then type whatever answer comes to mind.  You’ll often find that the source of your block is that you’re thinking too small.  You’re letting fears, excuses, and limiting beliefs hold you back.  Your subconscious mind knows you’re settling, so it won’t provide any motivational fuel until you step up, face your fears, and acknowledge your heart’s desire.  Once you finally decide to face your fears and drop the excuses, then you’ll find your motivation turning on full blast.

When I use this process myself, I uncover new goals that seem unreasonably big.  I admit that I want them, but I feel incapable of achieving them.  However, when I finally step up and set goals that lie outside my comfort zone, somehow I end up feeling very motivated, and I summon all sorts of unexpected resources to help me.

Was it unreasonable to set a web traffic goal of reaching a million monthly visitors without spending any money on marketing?  I originally thought so, but I privately set that goal before I ever launched this site because it inspired me.  More reasonable traffic goals had no motivational effect on me.  Now that I’ve achieved that goal, my next traffic goal is to reach 10 million visitors a month.  Is that unreasonable?  Probably.  But somehow it’s very motivating to me.

It seems counter-intuitive that motivation may be highest when setting goals that lie outside your comfort zone, but I’ve seen this pattern too many times to discount it.   Perhaps we have to set big, hairy, audacious goals in order to feel truly motivated.  Maybe little goals just aren’t enough to trigger the release of motivational energy.  If we think a goal is too easy, we won’t commit all our internal resources.  It’s only when we set unreasonable goals that all our internal resources come online, including motivation and drive.

When I set a goal that’s big enough and challenging enough, I never need to pump myself up with emotional rah-rah.  I feel motivated to pursue the goal because my intellect is fully behind it.  I just find myself doing what needs to be done.  No chest pounding required.

Motivation: A growth compliment of life.

Do you ever feel there’s a greater being inside of you just bursting to get out?  You can feel its presence sometimes, can’t you?  It’s the voice that encourages you to really make something of your life.  When you act congruently with that voice, it’s like you’re a whole new person.  You feel like a god in a human body.  You’re bold and courageous.  You’re strong.  You’re unstoppable.

But then reality sets in, and soon those moments are history.  Where did that powerful voice go?  Were you merely suffering from delusions of grandeur?

It isn’t hard to temporarily put yourself into an emotional state of power.  Just go to any Tony Robbins’ concert seminar, and he’ll have you dancing in the aisles feeling totally motivated.  Put on your favorite fast-tempo music, stand tall, breathe strong, chest out, shoulders back.  Strut around like a superhero.  Shout, “Yes!”  Pound your chest a few times for good measure.  You’ll look like a dolt, but this does actually work.

But then you go home, and the emotional motivation fades away.  Your great ideas now seem impractical.  How many times have you been temporarily inspired with an idea like, “I want to start my own business,” and then a week later it’s forgotten?  You come up with inspiring ideas when you’re motivated, but you fail to maintain that level of motivation through the action phase.

So how do you reach the point of high motivation and stay there?

Emotional motivation

Tony Robbins says the key to motivation is state management.  This means conditioning yourself to feel a certain way via techniques like anchoring (connecting an emotion to a physical trigger).  When Tony pounds his chest while speaking, he’s firing off anchors he previously conditioned.  The downside is that you need to keep firing off these anchors as well as periodically reconditioning them to keep your motivation up.  That means lots and lots of chest pounding.

As another motivational method, Tony suggests writing down the pleasure you associate to a task as well as the pain of not doing it.  Again the idea here is to stir up your emotions, so you’ll be motivated to take action.  This type of motivation is usually short-lived, even when the emotions involved are very intense.

I studied and practiced these kinds of emotional motivation techniques extensively during my 20s.  In the long run, I didn’t find them particularly effective.  My intellect saw right through all the chest pounding.  The logical part of my mind was ultimately dissatisfied with attempts to induce motivation through emotional manipulation.

Have you ever seen one of those rah-rah motivational speakers?  If the speaker is good, s/he will have an emotional effect on you and get you to feel motivated.  But within a day or two, that emotional boost fades away, and you’re back to normal.  You can listen to hundreds of motivational speakers and experience an emotional yo-yo effect, but it doesn’t last.  I think this is especially common with technically minded people.  We’re accustomed to thinking with our heads.  We’re still emotional creatures on some level, but our emotional B.S. detectors periodically scrub our minds free of anything that doesn’t satisfy our logic.

Intellectual motivation

I used to get frustrated when my emotional conditioning fizzled out after a while.  Eventually I realized that being guided by intellect, not emotion, wasn’t such a bad thing after all.  I just had to learn to use my mind as an effective motivational tool.  I stopped using emotional motivation techniques and decided to see if I could motivate myself intellectually.  I figured that if I wasn’t feeling motivated to go after a particular goal, maybe there was a logical reason for it.  Perhaps I just wasn’t taking my logic far enough to see it.

I noted that when I had strong intellectual reasons for doing something, I usually didn’t have trouble taking action.  I’m motivated to exercise regularly because doing so is intelligent and reasonable.  I don’t need to emotionally pump myself up to go to the gym.  I just go.

But when my mind thinks a goal is wrong on some level, I usually feel blocked.  I eventually realized that this was my mind’s way of telling me the goal was a mistake to begin with.

Sometimes a goal seems to make sense on one level, but when you look further upstream, it becomes clear the goal is ill advised.  Suppose you work in sales, and you set a goal to increase your income by 20% by becoming a more effective salesperson.  That seems like a reasonable and intelligent goal.  But maybe you’re surprised to find yourself encountering all sorts of internal blocks when you try to pursue it.  You should feel motivated, but you just don’t.  The problem may be that on a deeper level, your mind knows you don’t want to be working in sales at all.  You really want to be a musician.  So no matter how hard you push yourself in your sales career, it will always be a motivational dead end.  You’ll never convince your mind to give up on your more important dream of being a musician.

When you set goals that are too small and too timid, you suffer a perpetual lack of motivation.  Try all the emotional conditioning techniques you want, but you’re wasting your time.  Deep down you already know the truth.  You just need to summon the courage to acknowledge your true desires.  Then you’ll have to deal with the self-doubt and fear that’s been making you think too small.  There’s no getting around that if you want to experience lasting motivation.  Ironically, the real key to motivation is to set goals that scare you.

I recommend working through these kinds of blocks in your journal.  Type a question like, “Why am I feeling unmotivated to achieve this goal?”  Then type whatever answer comes to mind.  You’ll often find that the source of your block is that you’re thinking too small.  You’re letting fears, excuses, and limiting beliefs hold you back.  Your subconscious mind knows you’re settling, so it won’t provide any motivational fuel until you step up, face your fears, and acknowledge your heart’s desire.  Once you finally decide to face your fears and drop the excuses, then you’ll find your motivation turning on full blast.

When I use this process myself, I uncover new goals that seem unreasonably big.  I admit that I want them, but I feel incapable of achieving them.  However, when I finally step up and set goals that lie outside my comfort zone, somehow I end up feeling very motivated, and I summon all sorts of unexpected resources to help me.

Was it unreasonable to set a web traffic goal of reaching a million monthly visitors without spending any money on marketing?  I originally thought so, but I privately set that goal before I ever launched this site because it inspired me.  More reasonable traffic goals had no motivational effect on me.  Now that I’ve achieved that goal, my next traffic goal is to reach 10 million visitors a month.  Is that unreasonable?  Probably.  But somehow it’s very motivating to me.

It seems counter-intuitive that motivation may be highest when setting goals that lie outside your comfort zone, but I’ve seen this pattern too many times to discount it.   Perhaps we have to set big, hairy, audacious goals in order to feel truly motivated.  Maybe little goals just aren’t enough to trigger the release of motivational energy.  If we think a goal is too easy, we won’t commit all our internal resources.  It’s only when we set unreasonable goals that all our internal resources come online, including motivation and drive.

When I set a goal that’s big enough and challenging enough, I never need to pump myself up with emotional rah-rah.  I feel motivated to pursue the goal because my intellect is fully behind it.  I just find myself doing what needs to be done.  No chest pounding required.

Its diwali time

Itzz diwali time and each  of us will b looking to celebrate it wid a blast. BUt as u all know the circumstances the world is facing regarding global warming and green house effect, its better to go green this time.



The excitement and celebratory spirit that Diwali brings is unmatchable. Celebrating Diwali with friends and family has its own charm. 

But amid the festive fervour, how green is your Diwali going to be, is the question that many Amdavadis are giving much thought to. A festival celebrated with humble diyas and home made sweets has changed to noisy crackers, splurging and decorating houses with electric illuminations. It not only puts an added burden on the environment, but also puts health at stake for a lot of people. Though, the festive spirit should not soften any bit, we should also make sure we keep the proceedings safe, sound and eco-friendly.




Celebrate together
Festivals are best celebrated with your closed ones around you. So think of getting your relatives, friends and neighbours at one place and having the festivities going on. This will not only reduce the cost of celebration and amount of pollution as compared to individual celebrations, it will also brings more excitement, closeness and bonding among everyone.

Crack it thoughtfully
Fire crackers leave the city hazy, noisy and littered with paper remains the next morning. Instead of the traditional crackers, opt for eco-friendly products that are made from recycled papers and the noise produced is within the decibel limits set by the Central Pollution Control Board.

Go earthy
While the electric illumination looks stunning, there is no comparison to the age old diyas. The additional advantage of these diyas are that they are bio-degradable, cost effective and still look traditional and very beautiful. Plus, you can also contribute in saving on electricity consumption that normally reaches sky high during each Diwali.

Splurge more, but on emotions
While it's a great time for shopping, buy things that are required for the festival. Splurging on unnecessary items will only elevate the budget. Buy less of plastic and use-and-throw decoration items. Instead, try to shop for recyclable material. Also, while cleaning the house before Diwali, restrain from dumping things, instead give the discarded things to the underprivileged people.

FB UnLeaSheD... =P

nerwork hacking using command prompt............

Network hacking is generally means gathering information about domain by using tools like telnet, nslookup, ping, tracert, netstat etc. It also includes OS fingerprinting, port scanning and port surfing using various tool.

Ping: Ping is part of ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) which is used to troubleshoot TCP/IP networks. So ping is basically a command that allows you to check whether the host is alive or not.

To ping a particular host the syntax (at command prompt)-

                                                     C :/> ping hostname.com

Various attributes used with ‘ping’ command and their usage can be viewed by jest typing c :/> ping at the command prompt.

Netstat: It displays protocol statistics and current TCP/IP network connection. I.e. local address, remote address, port number etc.

Its syntax is (at command prompt)-

                                         C :/> netstat-n

Telnet: Telnet is a program which runs on TCP/IP. Using it we can connect to the remote computer on particular port. When connected it grabs the daemon running on that port.

The basic syntax of telnet is (at command prompt)

                                               C :/> telnet hostname.com

By default telnet connects to port 23 of remote computer.

So the complete syntax is-

                                          C :/> telnet www.hostname.com port

Tracert: It is used to trace out the route taken by the certain information i.e. data packets from source to destination.

Its syntax is (at command prompt)-

                                                   C :/> tracert www.hostname.com

Here “*** request timed out.” Indicates that firewall installed on that system block the request and hence we can’t obtain its IP address.

Various attributes used with tracert command and their usage can be viewed by jest typing c :/> tracert at the command prompt.

Beware Safe Surfers....Links and Events are Popping Up on the famous social networking sites like Facebook and Tumblr, saying that a new “Limited Edition” Facebook red theme is available. When a user visits the link, it downloads a malicious Chrome Extension, which reportedly steals all your Usernames and Passwords of your current active sessions and gets access to your History.

What is Encryption?

Encryption is a method or a technique used to encode a message so that it can’t be read by a normal user/person. Its an art of secret writing, It can also be defined as converting information from plain text using an algorithm or a cipher to make it unreadable, So that the converted information can only be read by the person who is having the special knowledge. The process of encoding is known as Encryption and its reverse process i.e. decoding it is known as Decryption. Encryption is very useful when it comes to protecting your confidential data from being stolen. It is helpful when data is transmitted over the network, it safe guards you data from sniffers. When data is needed to be encrypted over a network, SSL Protocol is used for encryption purpose. SSL stands for Secure Socket Layer.Types of Encryptions
Symmetrical Key : This type of encryption is also know as Shared Key Secret. In symmetrical encryption, the key which is used in the process of encryption, that same key is also used in the process of decryption. If two parties want to exchange the encrypted data securely, both of them should have the same copy of symmetric key.
Asymmetrical Key : This type of encryption is also know as Public Key. In this type of encryption, keys are generated in pairs, public key and private key. In asymmetrical encryption key used to encipher is different from the key used to decipher. Therefore the two partners have two different keys, one is made public and other one is made private. Let’s take up an example to understand the concept in an easy way.Suppose, John wants to send a message to Mike, he just ciphers the message with the public key and sends it to Mike. Since Mike is having the secret key, he can and decipher the message and read its content.