Introduction If you put 100 black ants and 100 red ants in a jar, nothing happens. They coexist peacefully, unaware of any reason to fight. But the moment you shake the jar, everything changes. The ants begin attacking each other, believing the other color is the enemy. Red ants kill black ants. Black ants kill red ants. Chaos spreads, and destruction follows. But the truth is simple: the ants were never enemies. The real enemy was the one who shook the jar. This small experiment is not just a story about ants. It is a mirror of how our world works. It reflects society, workplaces, families, teams, and even our own minds. Most conflicts are not born naturally. They are created, triggered, and amplified by forces we rarely question. And because we don’t pause to ask who shook the jar, we keep fighting the wrong battles. The Jar Is Everywhere Look around you. In offices, colleagues are pitted against colleagues....
Introduction Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is a famous happiness researcher. He chose to become that due to the adversities that he faced growing up being a prisoner during World War II. During this time, he saw the pain and suffering of a large number of people around him. After going through all these difficulties, he wanted to know more about happiness and contentment. Csikszentmihalyi interviewed various people, who described that their optimal states of performance occurred when their work simply without much effort flowed out of them. Due to this, he developed the term “flow state”, in the flow psychology of optimal experience. 8 Ways To Create Flow According To Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi 1) Must have clear goals and immediate feedback: The first way of creating flow in flow psychology of optimal experience is to have clear goals. You need to have a clear finish line if you want to go into flow. Also, you should give yourself immediate feedback on the effectiveness of your actions. If you...