Humans didn’t need modern technology to figure out that kids tend to look like their parents. Explore this timeline to see how philosophers and scientists throughout the ages tried to explain how traits are passed from generation to generation. Warning: It gets weird.

The Interactive Gene Timeline. 

Before we jump into how wrong many of history's great thinkers were, here's what we know now. A sperm cell and an egg cell each contain half the DNA to make a person. Encoded in that DNA are genes – instructions on how to make everything from eyelids to elbows. Some traits, like height, use a combination of instructions from both parents' DNA. For others, like eye color, one copy can win out over another. And you're stuck with the DNA you have - it doesn't pick up new traits over your lifetime to pass to the next generation.

The Present: We're Less Wrong Now

In about 500 BC, ancient Greek philosophers like Hippocrates and Pythagoras believed fathers held the answers to heredity. They thought that men’s semen floated around their bodies and collected the essence of their bodies, from their height to physical strength to hair color. That essence would condense into a person in the womb. They also thought that if a person’s body changed, that fluid would record and pass on those changes - so a weightlifting daddy would make a muscular baby.

500-400 BC: It’s All About Dad

A few hundred years later in around 300 BC, Aristotle pointed out that some kids also look like their moms and grandmas, and that traits like grey hair showed up after somebody made kids, but still made it into the next generation. He introduced the idea that it might be instructions that are passed along instead of a physical template, a blueprint rather than bricks. But he did stick to the idea that info got captured by semen and menses floating around the body.

300 BCE: Wait, What about Women?  

Father of surgery Al-Zahrawi wrote an enormous encyclopedia on medicine around 1000. He also wrote the first detailed record we have of a hereditary disease, which is an illness that is passed along in a family. Now we know that disease - a clotting disorder called hemophilia - is more common in men than in women because it’s linked to the X chromosome. If one of a woman’s X chromosomes has the hemophilia mutation, she has a backup and will avoid most of the symptoms. But if she passes that mutated copy to her son, he will have hemophilia. Colorblindness is another sex linked trait.

1000: We Inherit More than Good Looks

When Antonie van Leeuwenhoek vastly improved the microscope in the 1600s and observed living cells for the first time, humanity started to understand we are made up of tiny parts. And then we jumped to the conclusion that we’re so complex that the only way we could make something as complicated as a baby human was if it was already put together and just needed to grow. This miniature human was called a homonculus, and scientists thought it was fully pre-formed inside either a sperm cell or an egg cell, and needed just a womb to grow in or a sperm to jump-start.

1600s: Honey, We Shrunk the Kids?

In the 1800s, Charles Darwin had big ideas about how species evolved when natural selection killed off members with bad traits. But he didn’t have a good grasp on how those traits were passed along from parent to child. What he put forth was similar to Hippocrates’s idea - that body parts emit particles that affect eggs and sperm. He called them gemmules, thinking that better body parts produced better gemmules, and that each parents gemmules would blend in a baby. But his theory of evolution kind of needed inherited traits to be stable, unchanging units.

1800s: Darwin’s Problem  

Gregor Mendel a 19th century monk bred generations of pea plants and meticulously kept track of each plant’s traits from size to color to seed shape. He observed that parental traits didn’t blend together in a baby pea plant, but appeared and disappeared with mathematical precision. This could have been a breakthrough, demonstrating to the scientific world that traits were passed on in stable units of information, but everyone ignored his work. He even wrote to a scientist he admired for advice, who thought his experiment was dumb and told him to switch plant.

1800s: Mistakes Were Made 

It took scientists a long time from the discovery of cells to understand which parts of a cell do what. But as microscope technology improved and researchers learned how to stain specific structures within the cell, they started to put the puzzle together. In the early 1900s, several scientists including Theodor Boveri and Walter Sutton watched cells duplicate and discovered chromosomes. Finally, they had linked Mendel’s mathematics about traits to a physical structure in a cell. Further experiments showed that it was DNA in the chromosome, not proteins, that actually carried the genetic code.

Early 1900s: The Chromosome Shuffle

To really understand how something works, you have to know what it looks like. Many scientists got almost all the way there but fell short. One figured out the bases stacked flat on top of each other like coins, another almost figured out how the bases paired together, but no one put all the pieces together until the 1950s when James Watson and Francis Crick used data from Rosalin Franklin and other scientists to unveil the elegant double helix. This discovery allowed researchers the first glimpse of how our traits are physically coded in our DNA.

1950s: Discovering DNA

Knowing the general shape of DNA is good, but until scientists could read the code, they couldn’t make a lot of progress in understanding how our genes affect our health and lives. At first, it was slow. One of the first published DNA sequences was just 24 base pairs long and took the team two full years in the 1970s. But by the late 1980s, computers could read 1000 base pairs a day. Once they could read the sequence of a gene, scientists still had to figure out what it does.

1970s: Cracking the Code

In the early 1990s, the international community came together to sequence the entire human genome, all 3 billion base pairs. Techniques for computerized gene sequencing got faster and faster and they finished in 2003. Over the last 20 years, the cost of sequencing a genome has dropped from more than $100 million to just $1,000. And now, scientists are learning to quickly and accurately change DNA, perhaps in the future allowing them to cure many genetic disorders.

1990s: Putting it All Together 

The #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller The basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate History From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and “a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingeniously picked apart what makes us tick” (Elle). "Sid Mukherjee has the uncanny ability to bring together science, history, and the future in a way that is understandable and riveting, guiding us through both time and the mystery of life itself." –Ken Burns “Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee dazzled readers with his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Emperor of All Maladies in 2010. That achievement was evidently just a warm-up for his virtuoso performance in The Gene: An Intimate History, in which he braids science, history, and memoir into an epic with all the range and biblical thunder of Paradise Lost” (The New York Times). In this biography Mukherjee brings to life the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices. “Mukherjee expresses abstract intellectual ideas through emotional stories…[and] swaddles his medical rigor with rhapsodic tenderness, surprising vulnerability, and occasional flashes of pure poetry” (The Washington Post). Throughout, the story of Mukherjee’s own family—with its tragic and bewildering history of mental illness—reminds us of the questions that hang over our ability to translate the science of genetics from the laboratory to the real world. In riveting and dramatic prose, he describes the centuries of research and experimentation—from Aristotle and Pythagoras to Mendel and Darwin, from Boveri and Morgan to Crick, Watson and Franklin, all the way through the revolutionary twenty-first century innovators who mapped the human genome. “A fascinating and often sobering history of how humans came to understand the roles of genes in making us who we are—and what our manipulation of those genes might mean for our future” (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel), The Gene is the revelatory and magisterial history of a scientific idea coming to life, the most crucial science of our time, intimately explained by a master. “The Gene is a book we all should read” (USA TODAY).

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The #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller The basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate History Now includes an excerpt from Siddhartha Mukherjee’s new book Song of the Cell! From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and “a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingeniously picked apart what makes us tick” (Elle). “Sid Mukherjee has the uncanny ability to bring together science, history, and the future in a way that is understandable and riveting, guiding us through both time and the mystery of life itself.” —Ken Burns “Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee dazzled readers with his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Emperor of All Maladies in 2010. That achievement was evidently just a warm-up for his virtuoso performance in The Gene: An Intimate History, in which he braids science, history, and memoir into an epic with all the range and biblical thunder of Paradise Lost” (The New York Times). In this biography Mukherjee brings to life the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices. “Mukherjee expresses abstract intellectual ideas through emotional stories…[and] swaddles his medical rigor with rhapsodic tenderness, surprising vulnerability, and occasional flashes of pure poetry” (The Washington Post). Throughout, the story of Mukherjee’s own family—with its tragic and bewildering history of mental illness—reminds us of the questions that hang over our ability to translate the science of genetics from the laboratory to the real world. In riveting and dramatic prose, he describes the centuries of research and experimentation—from Aristotle and Pythagoras to Mendel and Darwin, from Boveri and Morgan to Crick, Watson and Franklin, all the way through the revolutionary twenty-first century innovators who mapped the human genome. “A fascinating and often sobering history of how humans came to understand the roles of genes in making us who we are—and what our manipulation of those genes might mean for our future” (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel), The Gene is the revelatory and magisterial history of a scientific idea coming to life, the most crucial science of our time, intimately explained by a master. “The Gene is a book we all should read” (USA TODAY).

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Emotions can range from 1 (despair) to 10 (ecstasy). Many people narrow their emotional range in order not to feel pain, generally staying between 4 to 6. These “4 to 6'ers” are emotionally surviving and suffer from numbness and boredom. Expanding your emotional range can be intimidating, but ultimately leads to a richer, more passionate life.

Emotions Have A Range

Imagine if all the human emotions were on a scale from 1 to 10, with 1 being the darkest feelings, such as despair and helplessness, and 10 being the brightest feelings, such as ecstasy and deep joy. All the other feelings are spread out between these two extremes: 3 could be worry, for instance, and 6 could be satisfaction or anticipation.Most children are naturally born with the full 1 to 10. They begin with free, unadulterated access to the whole emotional range. They feel all the emotions in a strong, visceral way. Children can fluctuate from crying to <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/laughter">laughing </a>to crying again in seconds.

We Are Naturally Born With The Full 1 to 10

Then over time, we internalize messages and judgments about certain feelings: “Boys don’t cry,” “You have nothing to cry about,” “We don’t yell in this house,” “Stop dancing around,” “Sit down and be quiet,” and more. Societal, <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/gender">gender</a>, and family of origin influences slowly trickle down, and as young adults, we begin to narrow our emotional range. Consequentially, many end up living in the four to six range. They are the “4 to 6’ers.” They live in that middle ground: not too sad or happy, not too in pain, but not too passionate.

But Then Become “4 To 6’ers”

The “4 to 6ers” are emotional survivors: They are fully functional, regulated, and plow through life. They don’t collapse or fall. They get jobs, marry, and have kids, but something is missing. They usually don’t know what it is. Psychologists meet them several years later, in <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/therapy">therapy</a>, when they finally confront this narrowness after a crisis, illness, affair, or threats of <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/divorce">divorce </a>.

“4 To 6’ers” Do Just Fine Until…

<ul><li>Born-again 4 to 6’ers are those who grew up in volatile or violent homes and decided they don’t want to feel such strong pain so they’ll consciously overcompensate and narrow their emotional range in order to protect themselves from getting hurt (this is called a <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-other-side-relationships/202002/why-do-we-behave-just-our-parents">corrective intergenerational script</a>).</li><li>Second-generation 4 to 6’ers are those who grew up in “comfortably numb” homes, and they are replicating what they experienced as normal (which is called a <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-other-side-relationships/202002/why-do-we-behave-just-our-parents">replicative intergenerational script</a>).</li></ul>

There are two types of “4 to 6’ers”

There are some gains for this narrow emotional range. <ul><li>Stability and control: 4 to 6’ers can operate consistently and efficiently without having the wind knocked out of them with emotional rollercoasters. They don’t get flustered or stuck. There is much less drama and a better sense of control. </li><li>Protection from pain: They are safe from the sorrow, frustration, and despair that can break them. </li> </ul>

The Gains Of The “4 to 6ers”

Several losses are inescapable in this emotional approach. <ul><li>Less vitality and fun: Since stability over time makes living somewhat monotonous, there is less excitement, playfulness, or amusement. </li><li>Overall stagnation and <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/boredom">boredom </a>with little passion or desire: Passion lives in the outer edges of the emotional range. It is often the uneasiness or yearning that fuels passion. Strong feelings fire cravings. </li><li>Less <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/relationships">intimacy </a>and vulnerability in intimate relationships: The narrower the emotional range, the less deep the connection between partners. </li> </ul>

The Losses Of The “4 to 6ers”

4 to 6 is just surviving. 1 to 10 is truly living.Why? Because feelings are what<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UCLrBSrS80"> make us human</a>. Living a 1 to 10 life means feeling the full range of what it is to be alive. And part of living to our fullest means feeling the highs and lows of life, which can be exhilarating as well as scary. When we allow ourselves the full range, our internal experiences become more sophisticated, life becomes richer and exciting again, and we gain better regulation and choice over our moods. Every day becomes brighter, thicker, and more meaningful.

Why Expand Your Range

<ul><li>Know your range. Talk to your partner, friends, and siblings and try to distill from their feedback what your emotional range is (as some people tend to estimate their own range with a <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/bias">bias</a>). If you aren’t happy with your range, or you want to feel more alive, then follow these steps.</li><li>Play. <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-other-side-relationships/202003/play-is-the-lubricant-life">Play is the lubricant of life </a>and, as such, will help you soften your self-perception and take yourself less seriously. This will result in your being more open to feeling and expressing new feelings. Try playing with children and people that are comfortable expressing emotions.</li></ul>

How Can You Expand Your Emotional Range

7 to 10: If you want to strengthen your 7 to 10 range, then practice joy. Joy is a verb. See here: https://youtu.be/Bp7B8hs-7YA1 to 3: If you find it hard to access the darker feelings, then exploring them could actually allow you to feel more joy because, after all, the key to your joy is in your pain. But: exploring these gloomier moods should be done in baby steps with someone you trust, who will not immediately be activated to cheer you up. You will need to do something counterintuitive: you will need to teach yourself to feel comfortable in your pain.

Stretch yourself in two directions

<ul><li>Expect more ruptures. A wider range will unavoidably upset old patterns and introduce new dynamics, which will result in more friction and conflict in your relationships. This is not a bad sign but rather an indication that you are strong enough to enter the crucible of relationships.</li><li>No applause. If you are a survivor who is trying to change, then be prepared that people in your life who are used to you being somewhat “emotionally handicapped” will be suspicious of this change. Don’t be surprised or taken aback; just keep going.</li></ul>

Understand That You Won’t Have An Easy Ride

What’s your emotional range? Have you chosen it? Are you happy with it? Expanding your emotional range can be intimidating, but ultimately leads to a richer, more passionate life.

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What’s Your Emotional Range?

How can you become more intelligent? First, forget about people just being born smart. Science has shown that neuroplasticity exists: You can grow brain cells and get smarter. It’s just a matter of how. These top 10 easy daily habits will make you smarter and give you the intelligence you deserve. Here’s how to get smarter:

The point of this list involves diversifying your day. Spend time on a variety of tasks. Spend 30 minutes on one task and move on to another. You not only stave off boredom, you also enable a critical resting period for your brain to recover.Your brain loves breaks. The main way to increase your intelligence involves flexing different areas of your brain. At a gym, you shift to different machines to give your body a full workout. Overworking muscle groups only leaves you strained and tired. Muscles increase their mass while in rest, and your brain works the same way

1. Do Different Things That Make You Smarter

In the online age, it’s easy to get distracted. You just wanted to check your email and suddenly you’re four pages deep on a “Breaking Bad” forum – then you re-watch the final season. Time well spent.Don’t let your online wanderings get the better of you. Make a list of your priorities. Tackle them in order of importance. Put time into your projects but when you hit a brick wall, don’t get out the hammer. Instead, relax and take a break.Devote time to disconnect from work. With your phone locked to your hip around the clock, your co-workers and boss will try to contact you.

2. Manage Your Time Wisely

Does reading make you smarter? Yes, regardless of content, reading increases your intelligence. A paper by Anne E. Cunningham claims that children who read turn into smart adults. Interestingly, Cunningham suggests that the actual reading material plays little role in the result. Instead, the act of reading produces increased intelligence.Reading creates an atmosphere for reflection and analytical thought. You pause and consider what you read. The practice of reading demands attention. Simply by concentrating, you stimulate your mind and increase your brainpower.

3. Read a Little Every Day

Once you learn a piece of information, review it. You can’t learn if you don’t remember. Memory functions through repetition. When you repeat a fact, you set the wheels of memory in motion again. The process of cumulatively reviewing information helps your knowledge to stick. Experiences linger on the outer cortex of the brain before transforming into memories housed in the hippocampus. Unfortunately, they often dislodge in the hodge-podge of information coming through. Like dropping your keys in a crowded nightclub, memories disappear in the chaos of thought.

4. Review Learned Information

Easier said than done, but learning a language represents one of the top things that make you smarter. Studying a language proves challenging for most people. It takes years of work to gain fluency in a foreign tongue. Lucky for you, mastering a language isn’t the point. Like a kung-fu student carrying buckets of water up a steep staircase, you gain strength through the task.

5. Study a Second Language

They might not beat your game console, but brain games claim to sharpen your cognitive ability. Many apps promise to boost your IQ through fun and simple games. These companies suggest that by playing games developed by neuroscientists, you’ll reap the benefits of their research.People like brain games. Whether they work or not, these programs get a lot of attention. The website Lumosity offers a series of <a href="http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/39768/title/Does-Brain-Training-Work-/">brain games used by 50 million brain trainers </a>. Surely they can’t all be wasting their time.

6. Play Brain Games

Guys grunting at the gym don’t usually look like Einstein, but daily exercise actually makes you smarter. Including 30 minutes of cardiovascular exercise in your daily routine will enhance your mental clarity and intelligence.An old Roman saying goes “healthy mind, healthy body.” This aphorism surprisingly has scientific backing. Research from Concordia University claims that getting more blood and oxygen to your brain does wonders for cognitive health. Not only does the biological aspect play a role, but multitasking while exercising also stimulates multiple areas of the brain.

7. Get Regular Exercise

Picking up an instrument will not only impress your friends, it will make you smarter. When you play an instrument, you employ a vast area of your brain at once.Consider the senses. You use your visual, auditory, and physical capacities all while playing an instrument. Your experience of playing music uses tons of cognitive processes simultaneously, for instance:<ul><li>analytic capacities to read the music</li><li>visual cues from watching your hands</li><li>maintaining rhythm and tone</li><li>awareness of physical space</li><li>utilizing your motor cortex</li><li>building muscle memory</li><li>engaging in social cues of performance</li></ul>

8. Learn to Play a Musical Instrument

You need to eat, so why not power your intelligence with brain-booster super foods? Certain foods contain qualities proven to enhance brain power. No need to order any fad food online – the best foods line the shelves of your local grocery store.The best foods for brain function all contain high levels of fat. Historically, fat has a bad reputation. People generally believe that eating fat makes you fat. Some fats do affect your body negatively, but not all.

9. Food for Thought: Eat Smart

Establishing a short, daily meditation practice can beef up your concentration, alertness, creativity, and intelligence. Numerous studies show a direct link between meditation and increased brain activity. Many prominent university researchers claim meditation benefits the brain:<ul><li>UCLA produced a study correlating long-term meditation with better preserved grey matter, which resulted in healthier brains for older participants.</li><li>Yale University demonstrated that meditation reduces daydreaming.</li><li>Johns Hopkins found that meditation curbs depression, pain, and anxiety.</li></ul>

10. Meditate

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Try to understand this: the day you can look at a bunch of people all competing with one another to be better in the eyes of someone, and choose to not be a part of that game, is the day you win in the mental battle of life. Look at that figure that you want to impress and see a person in them, nothing but a person just like other people you know. If they have the power to give you opportunities, then focus on what makes one capable to get that opportunity. Screw serving that person.

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𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐂𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐲𝐬.

𝐃𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧

𝐃𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲.𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐬. 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐦𝐛 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞.

𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐲 𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧, 𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐫𝐢𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐭.

𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰.

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In life so many things to doAnd, yes, so many things to say,I know I can and I really wishThat I also do a simple thing today.Let me help quench thirst of someone -Be it a friend, a stranger, or even a dog,Let me help carry someonehis burden: a box, a load or log.

A Simple Thing Today! (A Poem)

Let me bring comfort to someoneOr be a helping hand, perchance,From the road, if I come across,Let me remove a thorny branch.Let me speak a hopeful wordOr help someone find his way,All the things that I do in a day,O my Lord, let me do a simple thing today.~Mohammad Omar Farooq

So Shall We Do A Simple Act Of Kindness Today.

The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: 'Charity is due from every part of a person's body. Every day on which the sun rises, doing justice between two persons is charity; to extend helping had to a person in riding his mount or put his luggage on it is charity; a pleasant word is charity; every step taken to join in the Salat (prayers) is charity; removing anything which causes harm from a path is charity.'

Let's perform an act of kindness everyday! Shall we?

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What is the Reality? - IslamiCity

in 1999, 2 social psychologist discovered something about intelligent people: they rarely think they're smart. In fact, they often rate themselves at below average. On the other hand, people with low intelligence do the exact opposite: they almost always overestimate they rank by a long shot.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect

for example: let's say you re trying to learn how to draw. When you finish your first drawing you're probably going to think you're great at it. But once you practice and realize how much you don't know, you won't think you're very good anymore. This is why people with low intelligence often rate themselves so highly: they don't understand how little they know.

"ignorance is bliss

It was inspired by a man who, thinking about the fact that lemon juice is used to produce invisible ink, decided to rub lemon on all his skin, in order to rob a bank. He thought he was invisible to the bank's camera. Which of course was not true. He just had high expectations and a low intelligence, therefore he thought of himself as genius.

Dunning And Kruger's Original Experiment

If you get to know about the Dunning-Kruger effect it is impossible to have low intelligence. It makes no sense, i know, but hear me out. If you think highly of yourself you will be informed that this means you're not intelligent which leads to not having such a good opinion about yourself, that in the end, judging by this experiment, means that you are actually one of the intelligent people :)

My Conclusion

In today's video, we will explore a number of psychological facts that you never knew! Whether you want to learn about psychology facts, secrets of the mind, or the Dunning-Kruger effect, this video has it all... enjoy :) Music: "Straight" from Bensound.com Thanks to the rest of the TopThink team who worked on this video, including Tristan Reed (writing), and Maverick (Animation).

15 Psychological Facts That Will Blow Your Mind!

If you’ve ever pushed hard or cared deeply about something then you’ve probably experienced a feeling of being lost. Perhaps this manifests as being unsure of what to do next; unsure of how to do it; or even unsure of why you’re doing what you’re doing in the first place. This, says the spiritual teacher Rob Bell, “is a very normal dimension to the human experience…when you feel lost, whatever you do, don’t fight it; just bear witness to it; acknowledge it.”

What Do I Do? How Do I Do It?

Rob Bell has a framework for growth that goes like this: orientation > disorientation  > reorientation. Another well-known spiritual teacher, the Franciscan Friar Richard Rohr, often speaks about transformation as a process of order > disorder > reorder.

Is It Disorientation? Disorder? Rest?

This is quite similar to a framework that Brad Stulberg, bestselling author of Peak Performance and The Passion Paradox, and co-creator of the TheGrowthEq.com, has written about extensively, and one that is backed by over 100 years of science: stress > rest > growth.The challenge for many, himself included he says, is what to do during the off phases.

The Off Phases

For someone who is accustomed to being on, to having things under control and figured out, disorientation, disorder, and even just rest can be discombobulating. These are the phases that almost always look better once you are on the other side of them. It’s easy to talk about the merits of disorientation and disorder from a place of reorientation and reorder. It’s much harder when you’re in the thick of them and feeling lost.

All Is Well When It’s Over, But How About During?

As Bell says, the natural tendency is to fight being lost; or perhaps to shut-down altogether in the face of disorientation and disorder. Generally, this isn’t helpful. Decades of psychological science shows that suppression and repression have negative effects.But the flip-side, to romanticize and dwell in disorientation and disorder, isn’t helpful either. It’s not fun to be lost. We shouldn’t celebrate it. Ruts build on themselves. Science clearly shows that mood tends to follow action, not the other way around — sometimes the best way out of being lost is to just start doing something⁠.

Should I Fight? Shut Down? Stall?

Herein lies the paradox: It’s counterproductive to suppress or repress disorientation and disorder. But it’s also counterproductive to romanticize and dwell in them. What is one to do?Perhaps the answer is simply to pay attention — ideally with a non-judgemental mind and an open heart.

The Paradox And The Answer

The minute we judge them as good, as being desirable and key phases to growth, we’re liable to sit and stew in them for too long. The minute we judge them as bad and start suppressing and repressing them, we’re liable to miss out on what these phases have to teach us, and, ironically, also overextend their stay. But if we pay close attention to what is happening inside of us during these phases, and do so without judgement, the next steps tend to emerge on their own. In other words: we’ve got to be with disorientation and disorder⁠ before we do something about them.

Disorientation And Disorder Aren’t Good or Bad. They just Are.

This is true for individuals and for organizations. It’s true for small communities and entire nations. It’s the stuff of not only spiritual teachers but also science. Evolution is literally a process of order > disorder > reorder. Rush through disorder without listening to what it is telling you and adapting accordingly and you get selected out. But the same thing happens if you dwell in disorder for too long.

This Is The Very Process Of Evolution

Whether we’re talking about a marriage, a career, training for a marathon, building a business, writing a book, or walking a spiritual path, the middle phases are often the hardest. They are immune to strategizing and planning and controlling. There’s a risk in spending too little time in them and there’s an equal risk in getting stuck in them for too long. Perhaps the best thing to do is cultivate the capacity to name when you’re in these phases and then pay close attention to what is happening. It is in this way that you’ll learn when to keep being and when — and what — to start doing.

In The Middle Phases, Keep Being

Switch to Idle, but don’t idle. Be. And watch.

It may seem daunting, but a period of disorder from time to time can be a beneficial break from stress.

What To Do When You’re Feeling Lost

<ol><li>To lay out global standards for organizations to create and administer an environment where the psychosocial well-being of employees is as clearly defined and care for as their physical safety.</li><li>Offer a helpful baseline for HR professionals across industries to evaluate how effectively their organizations are providing a psychosocially healthy atmosphere, without the need for in-house specialists with deep expertise in mental health</li></ol>

The Goals of the ISO 45003 Psychological Health and Safety at Work

<ol><li>A stigmatized (often nonexistent) support system. Our current situation has highlighted the lack of supportive environments, unsustainable and unfair workloads, and ineffective recognition practices.</li><li>A diverse workforce has different mental wellness needs. Having a blanket solution applied to everyone, without considering their position makes them feel excluded instead.</li><li>Burnout remains pervasive and prevention is the best cure. Employees are facing difficulties in dealing with burnout because it remains to be their responsibility to solve it.</li></ol>

3 Common Mental Health and Wellness Issues Organizations Face

<ol><li>We need to discuss mental health more openly at work and underscore the importance of creating a psychologically safe space for each and every employee. The ISO guidelines are asking to create a culture of protection for employees that speak up.</li><li>The quality and reach of the mental health programs are what's important. We should consider the diversity of the workforce and their particular needs.</li><li>We need to implement and maintain support systems in the workplace for burnout prevention.</li></ol>

Strategies For Change: Handling  the 3 Mental Health and Wellness Issues 

Traditional solutions to mental health and wellness issues won't cut it anymore because it's becoming an increasingly important subject. Organizations seeking transformative solutions may need to have fresh eyes for the following:<ul><li>How we view employee mental health</li><li>Our company's role in leadership and how it's changing the company culture around mental health; and</li><li>The effectiveness of our strategies for today's workforce</li></ul>

A Significant Opportunity for Organizations Ready for Change

For too long we have let companies applaud us for being workaholics without considering our mental health and wellness issues. This article shows those in leadership roles, how they can prioritize our psychosocial health just as much as they focus on our physical safety.

Organizations can improve workplace safety by not only focusing on physical protection but the psychological needs of employees.

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