Crab Effect on The Human Mindset

The crab effect or crab mentality is a factual concept that can be attributed to various situations and environments.  The concept is well illustrated through close observation of how crabs when stuck together inside a closure with an opening-like bucket tried to ensure none escape from that closure.

Each time one of them climbs up and tries to escape through the opening another will quickly climb up and drag the other down. 

This phenomenon is like a vicious cycle each of the crabs keeps doing this to another to ensure none escape as long as they're all stuck in the same trap. And it's almost like the survival of the fittest and takes luck for one to escape from that trap without others trying to drag you down to the same level as all.

This mentality in psychology is best described as a way to showcase how self-centered and the kind of mindset certain people feel within a group, and can go any length to sabotage the progression of others in the same group. 

Nobody ever rises by pulling another down but we can only rise by lifting others. Crab mentality takes nobody anywhere. The attitude of gratitude and appreciation is the best, looking back and having a self-reflection and appreciating progress you have made from the point you are now. Instead of exhausting your negative energy in focusing on the progression of people around you, you should best channel your positive energy into being grateful and looking for a better way to develop yourself. 

Have a quiet moment of self-reflection and most importantly try to reach out to ask for help from genuine support systems. Ask for an introduction and be determined to focus all your energy on finding a way to help yourself and in return help others. That crab illustration is a typical mindset where everyone in a certain group is after how to escape and abandon others into the same cycle that is why they keep pulling each other down. Your mindset is what is going to take you to other places and into new opportunities, your mindset is what is also going to keep you stuck into the same cycle of myopic and mediocrity way of reasoning.

Ref:Image greatergood.berkeley.edu, compassionkindness.com/all-good-things-come-from-gratitude

Rose, Shamrock, Thistle and Daffodil Flowers

The four nations of Great Britain have their patron saints and flowers associated with them. These has historical or cultural interpretation following periods of war, peace, enlightenment, etc.

Rose flower and St George are symbols of England

Shamrock flower and St Patrick are synonymous with Northern Ireland

Thistle flower and St Andrew represents Scotland

Daffodil flower and St David are symbols of Wales

Ref: Project Britain, great British gardens, historic-uk, myirishjeweler, gardening101

Sunny Summer Day in the Park

In the face of courage never be discouraged.

 

You are what you believe; believe well.

The Beauty of Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity

This artwork is quite amazing with many interpretations. I can relate it to the famous Nelson Mandela quote.' If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. 

It also encourages the beauty of diversity in every environment.

Ref: lemn sissay MBE

Life is more about consistency, Intensity steals the limelight

Live and Let Live

Ref: facebook backround

There is no time limit for success, You get to write your definition of success.

  

Ref: Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy

Personal Development Bridges The Gap

Dunning Kruger effect is a concept that makes people overestimate their knowledge or ability, especially in areas they have little to no experience. When people feel they have no specialized skills they tend to overestimate their skills, 

and it makes them also unable to recognize these skills from others too.

'The very knowledge and skills necessary to be good at a task are the same qualities that a person needs to recognize that they are not good at that task. So if a person lacks those abilities, they remain not only bad at that task but ignorant to their inability'.

Despite the fact we all have a natural endowment in different specialization, the best way to succeed in dealing with underestimating or overestimating our abilities in a particular unfamiliar task is through continuous learning and personal development, liaise with experts in the field, challenging your knowledge, ask for feedback and never be afraid of asking for help and showing up.

Ref: verywellmind

Helpful Tips To Improve Mental Health & Well-being

 Ref: image Mental Health Foundation