What interesting pictures of the robust modern humans is that of city dwellers in endless lines of cars moving towards the beaches in search of reasonably clean water, while in a modern World one would expect that we would have a mass transit system to relieve the overcrowded streets of so many vehicles, with people stuck in them, wasting precious time.  Humans are social beings, and can provide for their wants much more easily by mutual help, and only by uniting their forces can they escape from the dangers that beset them. #RandolphHarris 1 of 8

Abuse of human and natural resources is a by-product of real achievement, and it is a problem that still must be solved. However, the success of campaigns against disease, maternal and infant mortality, birth defects, threats from natural phenomena, and so on, cannot be minimized. We want no debate with those who insist that man would be better off returning to nature and retreating from the paths of technology. They may be right. Yet, we do feel that the comprehensive picture of the human condition has improved compared to what it was like for the majority six thousand years ago. #RandolphHarris 2 of 8

It is also due to the complexity of man’s nature that the species has been able to develop interpersonal relations. Our relations with other humans are often cruel. Nonetheless, man is capable of greater affection, devotion, love, sacrifice than any other species, at least as far as we can tell. In spite of skyrocketing divorce statistics, the majority of human beings seem to have developed some ability to work on and improve their abilities to love and live together. Man knows more today about communicating and loving than ever before. Still, the fact is that there remain gigantic problems in the World that, but that does not mean that we are not closer to realistic answers. #RandolphHarris 3 of 8

The usual assumption we make is that to achieve career success requires a great deal of continuous investment of thought and energy. Just as every part of your body is interrelated with every other part, so each of us is interrelated and integrated into the larger human system, the society which we are part of. And, by extensions, each society is directly related to every other one, as nation is to nation, continent to continent. The entire planet can be seen officially as a gigantic network or web of interwoven parts. One things you can learn when you study your first spider web is that a slight pressure on any single strand of that web is felt everywhere on it. #RandolphHarris 4 of 8

That is how the spider uses its web: when a bit of food lands there and becomes stuck in the sticky coatings, vibrations travel all along the network, and wherever the spider is sitting in watchful waiting, it picks up these vibrations and gets the message. So it is in the network of the human experiences: pressure on any part of it affect the rest of the web. An Earthquake in San Francisco affects individuals the World over, as does the political-religious conflict going on in Sacramento, the Martian explorations of any nation, the race conflicts in the media are felt all over the World. #RandolphHarris 5 of 8

The network that ties each particle of humankind to every other particle. There are virtually no dark or hidden groups of life on the globe. For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open. Therefore, consider carefully how you listen. So listen to the word of God, and more understanding will be given to you. However, for those who are not listening, even what they think they understand will be taken away from them. When stone age tribes are discovered in the Germany, it is only a matter of time until the entire World knows about them, and the information gleaned from studying their lives provides insight to every culture and nation in the World. #RandolphHarris 6 of 8

This sort of interrelatedness has its disadvantages. Communications media have literally shrunk the distances between individuals and peoples. A decreasing amount of privacy is available to each of us. Is this lack of privacy important? We think so. People derive enormous pleasure from involvement with each other, but each of us also requires time apart, time alone. Our own personal lives are in need of development just as much as our social lives. If privacy is eliminated, what happens to the interior World of each of us? What happens to our peace of mind? These must not be lost in the patterns of growth and ever-increasing interinvolvement. #RRandolphHarris 7 of 8

To me, one of the most baffling aspects of the behavior of men and women in highly-responsible positions in some segments of our society, is their comparative lack of concern for—perhaps it is lack of awareness of—the factor of communication, as such, in the problems and situations in which they have to deal. It is communication that makes human society possible. Children use work to express how they feel, but many adults use words to hide how they feel.  I feel completely integrated. My interest in literature arose from my experiences in life and from my political experience and beliefs. I can say that the theory of love and conflict within people and between people made this all possible. #RandolphHarris 8 of 8

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Sometimes individuals have jobs that lack challenge and variety, but everyone likes a career that satisfies our requirement for novelty and achievement. In situations like these, one is required to expend additional psychic energy to reap the desired benefits. Without some effort, a dull job will stay dull. The basic solution is quite simple, it involved paying close attention to each step involved in the job, and then asking: Is this step necessary? Who needs it? If it is really necessary, can it be done better, faster, more efficiently? What additional steps could make my contribution more valuable? #RandolphHarris 1 of 10

Our attitude to work usually involves spending a lot of effort trying to cut corners and do as little as possible. However, that is a short-sighted strategy. If one spent the same amount of attention trying to find ways to accomplish more on the job, one would enjoy working more—and probably be more successful at it, too. The pressure to perform can easily generate shame, and the presence of shame makes it harder to adequately perform which just catalyzes more shame. Part of what is required here is to know the particular origins of the pressure to perform. #RandolphHarris 2 of 10

Even some of the most important discoveries come about when scientist, paying attention to a routine process, notices something new and unusual that is required to be explained. Wilhelm C. Roentgen discovered radiation when he noticed that some photographic negatives showed signs of being exposed even in the absence of light; Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin when he noticed that bacterial cultures were less dense on dishes that had not been cleaned and were moldy; Rosalyn Yalow discovered the radioimmunoassay technique after she noticed that diabetics absorbed insulin slower than normal patients, instead of faster, as it had been assumed. #RandolphHarris 3 of 10

In all these cases—and the records of science are full of similar one—a humdrum event is transformed into a major discovery that changes the way we live because someone paid more attention to it than the situation seemed to require. If Archimedes, lowering himself into the bath, had only thought, “Darn, I got the floor wet again, what will the missus say?” humankind might have had to wait another few hundred years to understand the principle of fluid displacement. #RandolphHarris 4 of 10

As Rosalyn Yalow describes her own experience: “Something comes up, and you recognize that it has happened.” Sounds simple, but most of us are usually too distracted to recognize when something happens. As minute changes can result in great discoveries, so small adjustments can turn a routine job, one dreads, into a professional performance one can look forward to with anticipation each morning. #RandolphHarris 5 of 10

First, one must pay attention so as to understand thoroughly what is ha ppening is the only way to do the job; then one is required to entertain alternatives and to experiment with them until a better way is found. When employees are promoted to more challenging positions, it usually is because they followed these steps in their previous jobs. However, even if no one else notices, the worker who uses psychic energy this way will have a more satisfying job. #RandolphHarris 6 of 10

One of the clearest examples I have ever seen was when I did research in a factory where audiovisual equipment was being assembled on a production line. Most of the workers on the line were bored and looked down on their job as something beneath them. Then I met Matthew, who had a completely different take on what he was doing. He actually thought his job was difficult, and that it took a great skill to do it. It turned out he was right. Although he had to do the same job as everyone else, he had trained himself to do it with the economy and the elegance of a master. #RandolphHarris 7 of 10

About four hundred times a day, a movie camera would stop at his station, and Matthew had forty-three seconds to check out whether the sound system met specifications. Over a period of years, experimenting with tools and patterns of motion, he had been able to reduce the average time it took him to check each camera to twenty-eight seconds. He was as proud of this accomplishment as an Olympic athlete would be if, after the same number of years spent preparing, he could break the forty-four second mark in the 400-meter sprint. #RandolphHarris 8 of 10

Matthew did not get a medal for his achievement, and reducing the time to go his job did not improve production, because the line still kept moving at the same old speed. However, he loved the exhilaration of using his skills fully: “It is better than anything else—a whole lot better than watching TV.” And because he sensed that he was getting close to his limit in the present job, he was taking evening courses for a diploma that would open up new options for him in electronic engineering. #RandolphHarris 9 of 10

It will come as no surprise that the same type of approach is required for solving the problem of stress at work, since stress is detrimental to achieving flow. In common usage, the work stress applies both to the tensions we feel, and to its external causes. This ambiguity leads to the erroneous assumption that external stress must be inevitably result in psychic discomfort. However, here again, there is no one-to-one relations between the objective and the subjective; external stress (which to avoid confusion we might call strain) need not lead to negative experiences. It is true that people feel anxious when they perceive the challenges and skills rests on a subjective evaluation that is amenable to change. #RandolphHarris 10 of 10