Milgram's experiment and the limit of psychological experiments

Milgram was a psychologist who did an experiment to check what was the influence of an "authoritarian" person on people's behavior. The experience consists on a memory test: One person tells a words line and other person (an actor) has to repeat it. Each time he/she fails, the "speaker" send a volt discharge to the one who failed, and every time elevate the voltage. Sometimes the "speaker" doubts, but then, a person with a white coat (like a scientific) tells him "It's safe", "Continue", and things like that, and then the experiment continued.
The results had a signification: 65% of the "speakers" "killed" the actor because of his errors. I think that people was too influenced by others. Does that mean that people doesn't think by themselves?

Well, this was actually an experiment that tried to find an explanation for the Holocaust, and it did. You can see a representation of the experience on the film "I comme Icare" (1979):

Trying to improve mental skills

I've been searching a lot of information about improving "mental skills", such as concentration, memory, and stuff. Then I started to apply it.
First of all, I searched for "meditation's psychological and biological effects", as I believed that there was a connection between the obviously high concentration rate of Buddhist monks and the time they spend meditating every day. I was right: focusing your attention on one thing - acting as "meditation base" - improves your capacity for concentrating on other things. Once mastered, this "actualized" skill can be applied on mostly whatever.
I'm giving it a try, and I can focus more on reading books, for example. I don't know if I'm doing it right or it's just placebo effects, but I'm happy with the results.

Choosing a topic for an oral presentation

Although there are a lot of ideas to talk about, it's really easy to choose what kind of stuff you want to talk about. The topics given by the teacher focus on projects that we've done in class (dreams and youth), adding "informatics" as a general idea.

Talking with my partner, it easily turned out that the idea we like more it's the dreams one. We've shared some opinions about the things that we like to talk about, but they weren't focus enough, so our ideas turned... "too general".

Then, we decided to talk about our personal dreams, the challenges we'll face to reach them and the solutions.