Why One Dimensional Success is not enough?

First of all thank you so much, everyone, for your amazing feedback about the last week’s post. It means a lot to me. Frankly, it was for me also one of my favorite posts, the subject I found very interesting and fascinating. I will definitely continue that topic. In fact, I am still in the amaze of dimensions.

Later I was imagining about all those dimensions of the world and suddenly a thought came to my mind. We do talk and research a lot about dimensions of the world and possibilities of other universes. But what about our dimensions of life.

By using dimensions like length, width, depth etc. we describe or locate something in the earth. But are there anything to measure or describe your life. What would you call a good life or a bad life? What are those lives dimensions?

Well, this does not have a straight forward answer and answer may vary person to person. For a person who has to struggle daily to get food, having a good meal every day may be a good life to him/her. On the other hand, people who have the basic comforts of life, having a good meal daily is of nothing exciting to him. He would not consider a good life is consist of just good food. Someone correctly said-

” The life you are living now is also dream of millions”

Then how do we say what is a good life?

In the year 1943, a Psychologist named ‘Abraham Maslow’ put forward a theory called ‘A theory of human motivation’ (known as ‘hierarchy of needs’) which answers the basic questions of human life like what motivates people to wake up and work? Why do we go to school? why we need friends or why employees get paid vacations? etc.

According to this theory, people are motivated by their unsatisfied needs. As each one of these needs satisfied (or fulfilled), it drives and next need emerge. For example, if someone’s need of food is satisfied then he/she will desire for better clothing or better housing etc.

However, there are two kinds of needs ‘lower order needs’ and ‘higher order needs’. Now, what’s the difference between these two?

‘Lower order needs’ are mainly fulfilled externally means needs such as food, clothing, shelter, security etc are lower order needs and these need to be fulfilled. It doesn’t depend on your wish or opinion. You need food otherwise you will die. Without shelter, you can’t rest properly.

But higher order needs are fulfilled internally i.e without your desire or wish these needs such as social belonging, self-esteem or self-actualization are not fulfilled.

This is a beautiful theory that depicts human behavior. Look at the picture, it shows as the lower needs are fulfilled humans should crave for higher order needs.

I use the word human should crave for because not every human fulfill higher order needs. As you need to push yourself to fulfill those needs those are optional to us.

So does this theory answers what makes a good life?

If you observe it carefully it does. Let’s take a few examples- you must have seen those people who are very successful in their professions but still their life is miserable, why is that? Probably he/she lacks in the other dimensions of life. He neglects the importance of friends and family. According to this theory, he is neglecting his ‘love and belonging’ needs. In the opposite case if someone has a great social life but lacks in fulfilling his/her safety needs such as employment, security even then he/she cannot fill great about his/her life.

In conclusion, you always need to fulfill your lower needs first before reaching the higher needs and one cannot have a good life just by fulfilling few needs and not paying attention to others.

Remember I was talking about dimensions of life. Just like we use dimensions of the earth to measure something. Dimensions of life are also a way to evaluate life.

the Those dimensions are- 1. Physical 2. Emotional 3. Financial 4. Intellectual and 5. Spiritual. If you think there are more then do comment and let me know.

Just like ‘Maslow’s hierarchy of needs’ you need to become better at all the dimensions as you grow up to become a better version of yourself. Let’s explain the dimensions little bit-

Physical- This is of course very obvious, without a healthy body you cannot do anything good in life. Also, a healthy mind resides only in a healthy body.

2. Emotional- There is a great line which says ‘ Humans buy emotions not things’, you can imagine by this line how emotional we are. That’s why it’s important to take care of emotional health. In today’s generation, mental diseases are more common than physical. So a crucial question is how well are you emotionally?

3. Finance- This one is the most well-known dimension by which often people measure others. Of course, it’s a significant dimension. But remember financial knowledge is not the same as having a lot of money. A person with financial knowledge can make money from scratch but for a financially dumb guy once lost, it’s forever lost.

4. Intellect- Leonardo da Vinci said ‘ Learning never exhausts mind’. Once you realize that, you will feel great satisfaction inside. Intellect is a gift to humans, not every species have that. So utilize it for your own joy. As the fulfilment, you get here is internal, you don’t need others approval or opinions to feel happy or satisfied.

5. Spiritual- This is the most confusing and misunderstood dimension to people. Whenever someone says spiritual we imagine a picture where a monk is meditating in a mountain or forest. You don’t have to be a monk or anything special to be spiritual (you can be if you wish). It is about valuing yourself, being an empathetic person, believing that all the differences, boundaries are in our own mind. we all are one and. Being spiritual is respecting that oneness.

How do you make sure that you are improving your score on all the dimensions?

Of course, you know the answer. You just need to implement all those. Real success is never one dimensional. You are good intellectually but you are emotionally exhausted, that’s not a success. You need to improve in every area to become a successful person. Probably that’s a good life.

There is a technique called ‘mind mapping’ where to get deep into a topic you just write down your thoughts in a diagram form according to the way they connect with each other. Try sometime, it’s a great technique. Here is one made by me-

The more dimensions you add to your life, the more fascinating it would be. In case, if you are thinking you are too busy in your life to learn something you always wanted, remember the following quote-

Have a fruitful week. until next time – Joy♥

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Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

What if you could live in a 10-dimensional world.

Have you ever thought of becoming expert in more than one field? In your childhood or teenage years, you must have thought about becoming may be a scientist, a musician, a doctor (whatever profession you like) at the same time. But alas! as you grow up you have chosen only one and take up that as your profession. It is very rare to become professionals in more than one field.

But what if I say you, you could be a scientist, a musician, a doctor or whatever you want to be at the same time. At least Science says that is possible but not in this world where we live but where dimensions are more in number than earth.

Ok so let’s let’s dive little deeper into the fascinating world of Science to better understand this- Dimensions are simply the different facets of what we perceive to be the reality. We all are aware of 3 dimensions of our world length, breadth, and depth. We can feel all three dimensions. To better understand look at the pictures-

two_dimension — Two-dimensional picture.

main-qimg-54263b1c5899b750fa065ec5618a18c1 — Three-dimensional picture.

These are the dimensions which we can see and feel. But this is not done here. To better understand our world we need another dimension (4th dimension), time dimension. Without this, it’s difficult to differentiate between two or more incidents. It makes much more sense to say ‘ I will meet you tomorrow at 9 a.m’ rather than saying ‘ I will meet you tomorrow”. Everyone is continuously traveling in time dimension but only in front direction. With the passage of time, we are getting young than old but we can never travel reverse in time dimension with this four dimensions, which are known as space-time dimensions.

These four dimensions are known to humankind since long back, from the time when Einstien explains how gravity works through space-time warp and curve.

In the year 1919, a German mathematician Theodor Kaluza first proposed that our universe has more than 3 dimensions we know. But then how many dimensions our universe has?

According to ‘superstring theory’ (about which we will know later), our universe can have 10 dimensions. So first four we already know now how about the other six?

What is a fifth dimension? Remember I said what if you want to be in two professions at the same time (say a scientist and a singer). In a fifth dimension world, you can go left and right of time that means you can be a scientist and a singer at the same time but in two different worlds (known as parallel universe theory). So your scientist version doesn’t know that you are a singer also in another world.

multiple-earths — The Fifth Dimension: Possible Worlds

If you increase another dimension then your scientist version can literally meet with your singer version and you can compare both the versions. Through which your both versions travel and meet is known as the sixth dimension. In short, if you can experience fifth and sixth dimensions then just like in space you can travel backward and forward in time, you’d witness every possible permutation of what can occur past, present, and future. One interesting fact, however, is that in fifth and sixth dimensions all the parallel universes or worlds have same initial conditions or beginning (for example Big Bang). To understand simply in both these dimensions you are that same person (in your teenage years) before becoming scientist or singer.

multiple-worlds — The Sixth Dimension: A Plane of All Possible Worlds With the Same Start Conditions

In the seventh dimensions, one can have access to all possible worlds that start with different initial conditions (unlike fifth and sixth dimensions). Everything is different here from the beginning.

many-worlds — The Seventh Dimension: A Plane of All Possible Worlds With Different Start Conditions

The eighth dimension again gives us a plane of such possible universe histories and futures for each universe, each of which begins with different initial conditions and branches out infinitely.

infinity — The Eighth Dimension: A Plane of All Possible Worlds, Each With Different Start Conditions, Each Branching Out Infinitely

In the ninth dimension, we can compare all the possible universe histories, starting with all the different possible laws of physics (where gravity operates differently, the speed of light is different etc.) and initial conditions.

In the tenth dimension, we arrive at the point in which everything that is imaginable and possible exists!
This is the ultimate! (one can consider is as the ultimate truth or God).

These are possible dimensions Science proposed today but how do Science reach up to these ten dimensions and why can’t we see all the dimensions?

To answer the first question we have to know a little bit about string theory. So what are the basic, fundamental constituents making up everything around us we know?

We all know everything is made up of atoms, inside atoms, there are electrons, protons, and neutrons but that’s not the end of story. Even neutrons and protons have smaller particles inside them known as quarks. up to here conventional ideas stop and here comes the String theory.

According to string theory deep inside these particles (quarks), there is a dancing filament of energy which looks like a vibrating string ( a one dimensional smallest thing about 10^-35 meter). Just like different strings in a musical instrument produce different notes, these tiny strings when vibrates in different frequencies produce different particles. These particles are responsible for different forces in the universe. In other words, it can explain everything around us and that’s why it also is known as ‘Theory of everything’.

But when Scientists tried to study the mathematics of string theory surprisingly it didn’t work in a universe that has just three dimensions, it didn’t work even in a universe with five, six or seven dimensions of space, finally it works in a universe that has 10 dimensions of space. That’s how the idea of 10 dimensions came.

But why can’t we see those extra dimensions? well, dimensions may come in two varieties- big, easy to see dimensions like length, width, depth and tiny, curled up dimensions which we cannot see even though they may be all around us.

And to prove the existence of these small extra dimensions a giant machine called ‘Large Hadron Collider (LHC)’ is built up in CERN, Geneva,( Switzerland). You can read more about these on their website.

So if the existence of these dimensions proved experimentally then the theory of Relativity, Quantum mechanics, electromagnetism everything can be explained by one Unified theory (imagine).

Now imagine, after knowing about the possibilities of all such dimensions, who are you compared to this vast universe sorry better multiverse. Maybe a toooo tiny part right.

So throw out your ego and enjoy as long as you are on this tiny planet. And don’t forget to express your gratitude to that superpower who controls all the dimensions. What you think about all these dimensions?

Have an awesome week. Until next time. -Joy♥

Source-

Physicists Outline 10 Different Dimensions and How You’d Experience Them.

2. Here’s a Visual Guide to the 10 Dimensions of Reality

3. Brian Greene Website