Introduction Everyone tells you to improve your skills before joining a new company. Learn more, prepare better, understand the latest tools, and become technically stronger. While developing your skills is important, there may be a more important priority when you enter a new organization: building trust. After watching professionals transition into new roles, one pattern becomes clear. The people who create early wins are not always the most experienced or technically skilled. They are often the people who become trusted the fastest. Skills can demonstrate what you are capable of doing. Trust determines whether people are willing to depend on you. Skills Create Competence, Trust Creates Opportunity Your skills are an important part of your professional value. They help you solve problems, complete responsibilities, and contribute to your team. However, skills alone do not automatically create opportunities. When you join a new company, people are still learning who y...
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...