Dr Irfan Hyder Youtube Channel Videos Topics and Links
I have come to the conclusion that social media especially youtube, Facebook, Instagram, and now even Google does not want people to remember chronologically and category-wise information that they have seen or even generated themselves. I am no longer able to see a list of all the videos that I have uploaded. It is only available on my account but not to the viewers. Similarly, my Blogspot articles can not be searched on google chrome. It would never show me the information that I want to see. It would only show me the information that Google wants me to see. This is information control.
Hence I have made a list of all the videos here so that I have a structured view of all of my videos.
Note: Last Updated from Youtube Channel on Saturday, July 16, 2022. There may be other talks on the youtube channel since then.
Education and Parental Counseling
- Blind following of Science and Technology ki Truck ki batti
- https://youtu.be/k505gmNtNws
- Is Science and Technology the solution to all the problems of a third-world country. Can Science and Technology be digested without the necessary social change in ethics and culture? What is the essential prerequisite of the environment for scientific inquiry and intellectual debates?
- Why Students Fail in Semester System – Survival Guide | Top 10 Reasons | Dr. Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/WUjggJ1dKjE
- Ten major mistakes that students make due to which they drop out of universities. What essential features of the semester system do these students ignore which are responsible for their bad grades and dropping out? Mistakes beyond studying.
- How Children Fail /How Children Learn | Dr.Syed Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/GfJuboyQCIY
- When it becomes criminal for parents not to heed the advice. When not reading some books can be considered criminal.
- How HEC kills creativity and How PEC kills creativity | Dr Irfan Hyder |
- https://youtu.be/74vdAFstRtc
- HEC and PEC and other accreditation councils are killing the creativity and innovation of the university through their turf wars based on a myopic and silo approach to degrees and specializations.
- Are you an extrinsic motivator or an intrinsic motivator? | مینیجر اور لیڈر میں فرق | Dr Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/Wc-XPQHffIs
- What is the difference between a manager and a leader? A manager is a person tasked to get the work done, by carrot or stick, or by hook or crook, which are extrinsic motivators. Leadership is the art of “inspiring” the intrinsic motivation in the hearts of people to achieve their visions and goals rather than be told what to do.
- How parents should help children with home work? | والدین بچوں کو پڑھائی میں کیسے مدد دیں؟ |
- https://youtu.be/NM9Evmj_Vs0
- The art of assisting the children with their homework. Do parents need to have a lot of education to enable the learning of their children? How to develop self-learning skills in children?
- Why Saith culture is condemned in Pakistan | سیٹھوں کو کیوں برا کہا جاتا ہے؟ | Dr Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/C65Xvw_pX6s
- Why businessman and saith culture in Pakistan is denigrated. Why do we look down upon the people who do business? Why becoming a businessmen is not prestigious in Pakistan?
- From Boards, O/A’ Levels Exams to Project Based Learning | Dr. Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/qi_5ndlq8og
- What is the link of project-based learning to examination systems of boards and Cambridge O-levels and ALevels exams? How PBL connects with achievement in exams.
- How to build confidence in children? | Dr. Syed Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/7K0wHs_cXXE
- Parents are increasingly demanding confident children. However, their over-protection works in the other direction when they don’t allow them to make mistakes.
- Rules that World’s Top Universities Allow but HEC Does Not Allow| Semester + Annual together | Part1
- https://youtu.be/TTSYEGxXO5Q
- HEC claims to be following world standards. But, their mindsets force them to be constrained by local compulsions and do not soar up and follow the rules that World’s best universities follow. They in fact do the opposite of the international best practices.
- How Corona pandemic taught the lesson of global sustainability | CORONA COVID-19 | Dr Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/_kevTb-DLCs
- Corona pandemic was a bitter pill that science had to swallow, a science that was claiming to overcome death by 2045. It taught us the lesson that more than the technical prowess, it is the sustainability and our alignment with nature that is our best protection.
- What is the difference between conventional exams and online exams? | روایتی امتحانات اور آن لائن امتحانات
- https://youtu.be/qQXR4_NdW50
- What is the underlying philosophy of online teaching and exams and what is the underlying philosophy of conventional teaching and exams? What happened during the pandemic when universities tried to apply the conventional philosophy behind campus-based teaching and on-site exams to online distance teaching and online exams they were in for a big surprise. Is it possible to survive in the two worlds simultaneously?
- How to Avoid Cheating in Online Education | Dr Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/VdPkrQHkTfA
- The only way to avoid cheating in an online exam in a scalable cost-efficient manner is to design the exam that is philosophically aligned to the online system, rather than sticking to the conventional philosophy.
- Why do children become allergic to Math? | When do students stop using their minds and why? | Dr. Irfan
- https://youtu.be/3lJb-xtDzLc
- What makes students stop using their minds in maths? How to overcome the fear of maths. When students stop using their minds and stop using their thinking skills
- Why do students hate reading? | How Schools make students hate reading | Dr Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/80ebbfXD6Qg
- If we hate a subject, it was because of a teacher that taught us to hate the subject. How to promote love for reading and literature.
- How Schools are producing Non-Readers? | Dr. Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/RXNxP8_L1vs
- Why schools are producing non-readers? It is the emphasis on technique or the emphasis on thrill and romance.
- Grades ki Dour aur Universities ka Admission | Dr.Syed Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/as_t1eqfG_4
- Why students and parents are so much worried about getting university students? Is there a connection between grades with success?
- How to get most from university education! | Dr Irfan Hyder | New Students Orientation
- https://youtu.be/hfmnBtdCwhs
- How to gain maximum learning from university life beyond studies. This is often ignored in our strive to obtain grades.
- Mother’s Motherhood Vs Teacherhood | issues of mother as teacher | Dr Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/jAAxZT-Y63o
- What does a child need; mother’s motherhood or mother’s teacher hood? How mother’s worry about their children’s grades destroys their motherly relationship with the children.
- Why Engineering graduates have to search so much for engineering jobs? Why they are so desperate?
- https://youtu.be/MQJopWBt_EE
- Why Engineering students are so much worried about their jobs? Is it a lack of theoretical knowledge or a lack of practical knowledge?
- Why Powerpoint slides should be banned from classrooms | Dr Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/nbDGY0Ygj6k
- Why ppt presentations have robbed student-teacher engagement? Why ppt presentations make the teacher lethargic, disconnect the students, and disable communication?
- Why Slides/Notes can never be a substitute of books! | Dr Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/cWcyeZH_FmY
- Use of slides can never substitute books. Book reading and comprehension is a complex phenomenon that develops thinking skills of abstraction, hierarchical decomposition, chronological order, cross-linkages, completeness, and conciseness of exposition. These skills can never be cultivated through slides, which are at best memorization tips.
- How to balance a job and study at university? | Dr Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/zrhUSQuwWl8
- Students work and study in USA and other countries. Similarly, in Pakistan several students complete and extend their studies alongside their work. This requires certain balancing skills, prioritization and understanding the intent of teachers to successfully complete the studies with job commitments. Not understanding these balancing skills often impede the studies.
- Can grades and degrees measure the success of learners? | Parents’ perception on learning success | Dr. Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/Fk0m6DLDq4I
- Can grades and degrees measure the success of learners? | Parents’ perception of learning and success of their children. Grades only measure some of the learning. What makes a student successful requires several skills that can not be measured by grades. These skills differentiate a smart student from a rote learner.
- What if a teacher comes unprepared in class? | Teaching a topic that has not been internalized by the teacher | Dr Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/Cuj99CppEkg
- What if a teacher comes unprepared in class and finds that he has to teach a topic that has not been internalized. What to do when the teacher finds oneself not knowledgable about the lesson to be delivered.
Research/PhD
- Why PhD is Difficult? | کیا پی ایچ ڈی کرنے کے لئیے بہت زیادہ انٹیلیجنس کی ضرورت ہوتی ہے؟
- https://youtu.be/vfO-MM-6B0M
- PhD is not difficult because it is hard, but is difficult because it requires a long-term commitment that is often hampered by procedural weaknesses, organizational issues, and personal issues.
- Does PhD make you an expert in a field or department | How HEC kills creativity -2 | Dr Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/5OYlgq0O8Mw
- The myth of specialization of expertise in a PhD. What HEC/PEC and other accreditation bodies ignore when deciding about the relevance of a PhD to a particular department. How they kill multi-disciplinary research.
- There are very few new ideas in this world! Most PhD Research is Old wine in New bottles| Dr Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/qsgCASE3fHk
- What is new in the millions of research papers and Ph.D. dissertations that are being published every few years? What great breakthroughs and original insights are there in such research? What I learned from my supervisor about the originality of research.
- Why Interdisciplinary & Multidisciplinary Research | Dr Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/EhMaUlbRb4I
- HEC and other accreditation bodies that want researchers to be confined in the silos do not understand that all interesting, significant, and industry impactful research occurs at the boundaries of knowledge that define a subject area as a box. Out-of-the-box thinking, therefore, requires applying concepts from one field to another.
- Seeing the forest from the trees | Abstracting the Problems in PhD Research | Dr Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/y6yUPevTkq4
- The conceptual process of analyzing a particular problem involves rising to a higher “abstraction level”. This is akin to a person lost in the jungle who can only see the trees. The only way out is to climb up to a vantage point from where the layout of the forest becomes visible.
- How is PhD Literature Review structured to Present the State of The Art | Dr Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/KdVMGEfIgOM
- It is often said that the literature review is not a listing but a synthesis. But, what that means from a practical point of view. What type of a “structure” indicates that you have a synthesis, not a listing.
- What is a Thesis Statement in PhD/MPhil Research? | Dr Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/UNAg0B1xg4g
- You don’t have a PhD unless you have a “thesis”, i.e. crux or essence of what you want to say. This explains the essential components of a thesis statement. During your PhD, this tool helps you on focusing on the essence of your current state of research. This tool helps you keep track of how your thinking evolves as you go deeper and deeper in your research and its writing.
Life Skills, Literature
- “Bharat ko Janay Walay” | Fatima Khatoon’s Farewell for a Migrant’s Return to Home l Dr. Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/RM8OKwVkkm8
- What are the emotions when one of the migrants to a new country (Pakistan) decides to go back to his home country (Bharat)? What are the emotions of the country-fellows who have migrated and see a migrant fellow returning to his home country
- How to remember things over decades? | Part 2 | Dr. Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/oTn3o7y5Rq0
- How we can learn to remember things over a long period of times? What are the conceptual skills required in maintaining long-term memory? How the mind remembers things.
- Leadership: From Time Teller To A Clock Builder | Dr Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/yE2x0b4B5wM
- Some leaders tell others what to do and when to do (time tellers), others build in their followers the capacity to tell the time themselves (clock builders). This term is from Jim Collins book “Built to Last” where this quality is explored in detail and it differentiates the companies that are built to last.
- Secret of Happiness, One Simple Rule | Personal lesson | Dr Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/aaE6uPv0c8Q
- Is there one rule that can help you to become happy? You can discover happiness just be following one simple rule. What would it take to follow this simple rule?
- Awaz e Dost I Mukhtar Masud and Ethos of Aligarh Movement | Dr. Syed Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/i6jSGhaTZuQ
- This book changed my perspective on who we are as a nation. What we can learn from the ethos of our founding fathers. A literary masterpiece with the most beautiful prose I have ever read in Urdu.
- Depression & Poetry | اپنے جذبات و خیالات کے اظہار کے لئے شاعری اور اشعار کا استعمال
- https://youtu.be/B3puzzbvJnw
- What is the relationship between depressive thoughts and poetic expression? How poetry enables us to face hardships in our lives.
- Overcoming Depressive Thoughts | اپنی سوچ کے گرداب سے کیسے نکلیں؟ | Overcoming Crippling Depression
- https://youtu.be/pP2ihHr9LiY
- How patterns of thinking create depressive thoughts. How to avoid these patterns of thought.
- What to do with Circular thinking | Overcoming Crippling Depression| Dr Irfan Hyder
- https://youtube.com/shorts/coArXWbWTeM
- When we go round and round thinking about issue-A which takes us to issue-B which takes us to issue-C and then we come back to issue-A, and loop endlessly. How to break this cycle of circular thoughts and convert our thoughts into some action, any action.
- Speech of a 16 years old girl on Iqbal in 1951 I Dr. Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/MjrT9p7USww
- A speech delivered on 1951 Iqbal day by a 16-year-old girl. Appreciate the language and constructs in that speech. Delivered at New Town Girls School, now called Safia Khan Girls School.
- Circle of Concern and Extending your Circle of Influence | Dr Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/_i_2QMdCxOg
- How to move issues that are not in your control or in the circle of concern to a sphere where they are in your control and in your circle of influence.
- Is depression linked to weakness of eeman belief | Dr Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/QRa2TAqcSP4
- Why do we lose hope and get depressed? What have such thoughts to do with our belief system?
- Who I am? Why I am? Getting to the Right Answer | Dr. Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/_4R2ompdLNc
- Who I am? Why I am here? What is my purpose? What is the process through which we can get to the right answer?
- Is there Happiness without Responsibilities? | Dr. Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/h2HMKAnjO_s
- How to be happy with responsibilities. Can there be happiness without responsibilities? Can a person having no constraints discover happiness? Is there happiness in trying to resolve the constraints of responsibilities through hard work and self-management?
- Recitation of ” سیل زمانہ ” from ” خیالستان ” Author Syed Sajjad Haider Yaldram | Dr Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/dT7-CBN_2_Y
- How the flow of time is sweeping us continuously, not allowing us to stop to ponder, enjoy and live the moment.
- Other people’s behavior is a reflection of our behavior | ہم لوگوں کا رویہ کیسے تبدیل کریں؟
- https://youtu.be/efd1yLqMlQg
- How to change the behavior of people. What does it take to change the behavior of people?
- CONTEMPT | Tazleel, Beizzati, Badtamizi | Dr. Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/xc5_oaWkVAk
- What is contempt? How does it reveal itself in your language, name-calling, humor, and jokes?
- https://youtu.be/Sf6QwTmjtYU
- Learning from the initiative
- صبر اور محنت کا آپس میں کیا تعلق ہے؟ |Hardwork vs patience | آ پ کامیاب کس طرح ہو سکتے ہیں؟
- https://youtu.be/d4JLWCLSOr8
- How is hard work related to patience? Why do the two words often come together?
- Branding & beautification. Khoob Soorat vs Khoob Seerat | Dr. Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/68ov7MWysl0
- Blog post: https://irfanhyder.com/2021/04/first-makeup-experience-travel-of
- Evaluating the essence of beauty? How do some lessons get transmitted through generations?
Governance, Constitution, and Public Opinion
- Balance of Power Parliament legislature, Government Executive, Judiciary | 3 Pillars of Government
- https://youtu.be/Kn2X9XEGx1Q
- How the relationship between the pillars of the state is distorted and not understood leading to the continuous slide of a country like Pakistan.
- Why they want a presidential system in Pakistan: Pakistan mai log kiyun sadaarti nizaam chahatay hain | پاکستان میں لوگ کیوں صدارتی نظام چاہتے ہیں؟
- https://youtu.be/FvgfzUHL03Y
- The powerful ruling elites want the people to keep discussing the governance system while they continue to exploit the people.
- Incompetence is the Mother of Corruption l Dr. Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/IvYxfAoWeVQ
- People often think that only “honesty and integrity” (imandari) will solve the governance issues of third-world countries. What creates corruption? How is incompetence related to the reduction of corruption vs imandaari.
- Reality of 10 Billion Tree Tsunami Mega Project? | Dr Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/cl5Xao0Bn2U
- How leaders can fool educated people about the billions and millions. How complexity increases when you go from millions to billions. We need mega management, not mega projects
- Experiments to control democracy in Pakistan | Failure of Democracy In Pakistan | Dr. Irfan | part 2
- https://youtu.be/407o8NZjX-s
- Pakistan has done over 18 governance experiments since 1950s with presidential, parliamentary, martial law, and various kinds of hybrid variations. However, all have failed because the intent was never to serve the people but to subvert the will of the people.
- Why criminals are not convicted, Why they are often released by courts? | Govt Agencies vs Judiciary | Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/VCc27wMCVB8
- While there is a role of the judiciary and politicians in perpetuating corruption, but the major culprit has been the bureaucracy of the investigation agencies that file faulty cases because of lack of due diligence, incompetence, and political influence. Such cases can never get past the due process of law, and get thrown out in the appeals process.
- Why Tech Projects Fail! Technology is as good as the people using it. | Dr Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/tc-Gc3PeyjU
- A tool or a technology is as good as the people using it. Technology in itself is neither a solution nor a panacea. Technology only works when people know how to make it work.
- Need for Charismatic, Strong, Angelic Saviors | کیا صرف عمران خان ہی آخری امید ہے؟ | Dr. Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/rDSn-3XRJLI
- Why we are waiting for a savior on horseback to relieve us from our economic downslide. Why we expect a man in shining armor, a strong, angelic, smart to extract us from our doom and gloom.
- Incompetence of the Competent Authority l Dr. Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/uLdoQnEdTsc
- Why does bureaucracy hide behind the cloak of “Competent Authority”? Why do they use the phrase “competent authority” to hide the identity of the decision maker?
- Medium is the Message | Beware of Social Media | Dr. Syed Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/MrQ-_-ra3fA
- The character of a particular medium distorts and dominates the message. What is the character of FB, Google, Instagram, Twitter, etc how does it convolute the message
- Why Sweeping Generalizations are almost always wrong?| Dr. Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/PHz7SUlItF0
- What is the truth in statements like “all people are thieves or frauds”. Is it true to all people are crooks?
- How media imprisons you in your emotional filter bubble & echo chamber | فیک نیوز کا طوفان کیوں ہے؟
- https://youtu.be/Qf8ZpvgRGys
- How social media has imprisoned us in a customized filter bubble of like-minded people and posts that have been designed according to the sentiment analysis of our likes and dislikes.
- How Social Media is robbing us of our memories, character and our self-definition | Dr.Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/QjzERfT7oEM
- Social media such as youtube, Facebook, and Google have designed their search and presentation of results in a manner that overrides our memory structures of the hierarchy of information and chronology of events. They want us to remember the things that they want, not what we want.
- How to bring change (Tabdeli)? | Process Vs Structure | Dr. Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/esTa4Ac0gLE
- There are two ways for organizational change; focus on organizational structure or focus on business processes. One creates resistance to change the other creates ownership of change.
- How to bring change (Tabdeeli) with BPR? I تبدیلی کیسے آتی ہے؟ | Dr Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/iX28cNafaKw
- Business Process Reengineering is more effective in bringing change in big organizations. It forces the departments to allocate resources and adjust the hierarchies to accommodate process changes that yield quick results and measurable successes.
- Pilot Testing & Exponential Complexity in Tech Projects like EVMs | Dr Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/StHgsvj8ldI
- Big projects can not succeed without pilot projects and prototypes. Embarking on big implementations without real-life pilots with actual data and actual situations is a recipe for disaster. Large the number of stakeholders, the bigger the stakes, more the likelihood of disasters and the throwback to the old system. An increase in complexity is typically exponential with the increase in size and not linear as most people think.
- Gross Domestic Product Vs Current Account Deficit I Dr. Syed Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/eITQtOGvqA8
- The debate about GDP vs Current Account Deficit. When you exacerbate the global situation by focusing on local optimizations.
- Magnanimity vs Meanness | لوگوں کے لیے آسانیاں پیدا کی جائیں | Dr. Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/0hIc_-xWuL0
- The essence of leadership is to make life easier for others. Your success is in being magnanimous, not vengeful, hateful, or vindictive.
- Why GDP growth is important for the Economy? | Dr. Syed Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/dsBe4v8z0o4
- What happens when GDP growth occurs? How is GDP growth related to the resolution of economic constraints?
- What is Crypto Currency? | Opaque Hidden Control | Dr Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/Vo2-mYZaXBA
- Cryptos are nothing but a mechanism to hide the details from the users. Showing only the things that the system wants them to see. There can be no independent verification of the correctness and validity of the data except the system itself. It is about belief in the unknown, belief only on the mathematics that most do not understand. Similar to the derivatives engineered debacle.
- How to withstand Social Media vicious derogatory critics | Dr. Irfan Hyder
- https://youtu.be/oQu0oByvne4
- How you can negotiate vicious dissent and trolls attacking you on your posts through derogatory language, insinuations and propaganda?