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What are your teaching moments beyond work?

What are your teaching moments beyond work?

The interviewer is interested to know what is your life beyond work.
How do you keep yourself engaged in your spare time? How do these activities grow you to be a better person?
Tell about activities e.g. sports, theater, hiking or any other activities in which are engaged.
Bring out how these activities help you stay focused, engaged and mindful. Show how these activities help you network, learn soft skills etc.
Do's
• Show that you are open to learning beyond formal spaces (work, training, school etc..)
• Show how it helps you to stay intelligent, alert and mindful
• Show how it benefits your job
• Tell about a real life example
Don'ts
• Don't be boring
• I do not have such moments beyond work
Similar Question
• What have you learnt from your experiences outside the workplace or school?
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The mistakes we make in our everyday life

• We are hardwired to make these mistakes • Few biases are simply evolutionary • These errors affect all of us including the bright ones • Experience is just not enough to overcome • but expertise is required to recognize and overcome

Few of biases as below · Anchoring - When an individual depends too heavily on an initial piece of information during decision making · Fixed pie - When we assume that our interests conflict with the other party's interests and we play adversarial · Framing - When we decide on our options differently when the options are presented with positive or negative connotations · Vividness – When we pay attention to strong features at the expense of less, that could be more impactful · Over confidence – When our subjective confidence is greater than the objective accuracy · Escalation – When initial decision is followed up with an irrational decision to justify the initial decision

Few ways to mitigate these biases are · Learn to recognize the bias · Use slow, effortful and logical thinking (System 2) · Avoid fast, automatic and effortless thinking (System 1) · Avoid negotiations which are thrust upon when not ready · Learn through use of stories, examples, exercises · Bring an outsider perspective