The Flow State of Mind you might be wonder many time what is that one thing which has make successful people successful or what is that one thing that one should practice if one wants to become successful in his life ? Intro : Well there is no answer to above question , yes because there is not any one thing which will make sure that you become successful but there is some series of thing that will make sure that you become successful fast in life and almost every aspect of your life. And from this series of thing one thing is Flow state What is Flow State ? Flow state of mind is state of mind in which one become totally selfless and doesn't experience anything else except the work which is currently done. According to the father of flow state Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi being in a flow state is the optimal experience one experience in his or her whole life. below is the video to understand the flow state of mind in Hindi.
Socrates - A Greek Philosopher credited as one of the founder of Western Philosophy | Socrates' life story
Socrates
(469-399 B.C.)
A Greek philosopher credited as one of the founder of western philosophy.
Rest you'll found on Wikipedia about this great philosopher, So let's move to the story
Hello, I'm Socrates and I changed the world as I speaking to you now I'm sitting in a Jail Cell in a cave just outside of Athens in a few moment a guard is going to bring me a cup of poison hemlock to drink after I do so I will become very sleepy then I will take my last breaths but before that happens I thought I'd have to share some thing with you.
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I was born in Athens and ancient Greece people know very little about my history in early life and i like to keep it that way. You'll see that I'm a bit of a troublemaker and like to be a little mysterious most people know me as one of the first philosophers of the western world but I never saw myself in that way, Philosopher tend to think they know a lot about the world but me I really don't think i know anything at all.
When I returned to Athens after fighting in the Peloponnesian war I did quit a bit of thinking you see in my time there were many men who were considered wise but I was very sceptical of this wisdom in my life and travels I found that many people who appear or claim to be wise are not actually very wise at all. This is a problem because when people believe a man is wise they tend to blindly follow him often with terrible consequences, If you don't question this wisdom you can never discover its flaws then knowledge stands still like a a stone instead of growing and changing like a tree so I started asking questions.
I found that when someone makes a claim that something is true the best way to test that truth is to ask the series of challenging questions. For example if a man claims that it is virtuous to love god Vishnu I would ask what is virtue? what is love? Are there other gods to love? If they cannot even explain what virtue is how can they say that it is virtuous to love Vishnu. If they cannot explain what love is how can we know if we are really loving Vishnu and therefore that we are virtuous if someone making these claims cannot answer these challenges then how can they know the truth of their claim.
In my life I didn't publish any work so write much down for the others to read but many young men in Athens including my very bright student named Plato used to follow me around and watch closely as i questioned some of the wisest men in the city Plato would eventually pass this method down to his student Aristotle who was the tutor of the Alexander the great, Alexander spread Greek thought to his vast kingdom when the romans took over alexander's they expended it even larger and spread the Greek tradition even further.
Sadly when the romans fell the world entered a long dark period where knowledge stood still once again but then something wonderful happened there was a renaissance of thought and knowledge when people began to revive the works of my students science flourished when people realized the power of methodical questioning and testing of claims in your time my method of questioning is known as the Socratic after me method and is the basis of Morden scientific and philosophical inquiry and all this because I asked a few questions many people think that when someone asks a question or many questions like I do that they are unwise but I think exactly opposite, The true wisdom is the knowledge of how little you actually know. It is the realization that allows you to start asking questions and got to the real truth.
Asking questions may be the best way to get the truth but it is also a fast way to make enemies I'm afraid that I embarrassed quite a few very important men in Athens who saw me as kind of a professional smart aleck when they saw the young men in the city were beginning to question like I did I was arrested for corrupting the youth of Athens my student Plato wrote about the trial and how I tried to defend my self using the same method of questioning that I was arrested for this just made my accusers even angrier. eventually when I was convicted the curt asked me what I thought my punishment should be I said that there should be a meal in my honour every night at the sacred hearth of the city where great men and Olympic champions are honoured I said my punishment should be a free meal at that hearth since I have opened up everyone's eyes to true wisdom, its needless to say they didn't like that answer at all seeing it as further proof of my insolence I told you I was a troublemaker sentenced me to death. So here I'm talking to you.
I have to say goodbye to my friends and family now but don't feel bad for me, I'm an old man now anyway and to be the world's first martyr for the cause of truth remember one thing that we know nothing but don't take my words because I also know nothing.
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