What comes to mind when you think of an ant? A convoy of food that is several times as large as one’s body. Ants who always work diligently. Like in the fairy tale ‘An Ant and A Grasshopper,’ the ant is a symbol of hard work. But if you look closely, not all worker ants work hard. Unexpectedly, there are only 20 percent of ants that work and there are as many as 80 percent of lazy ants pretending to work. The funny thing is, when we put all the 20 percent of hard working ants together to work, they all work very hard at first, but over time they are divided into the 80:20 ratio. It’s the same way if we were to gather the 80 percent ants who were part of the playing, lazy ants.
The first person to discover this theory was the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto who happened to observe the ants. Pareto also found that these 80:20 rules equally apply to our human society. For example, 20 percent of workers in the workplace complete 80 percent of the total work, 20 percent of consumers make up 80 percent of the sales, and 20 percent of the population make up 80 percent of the world’s wealth. So 80 percent of the total results come from 20 percent of the total. Even the happy period a person feels is 20 percent of life, and during the other 80 percent of life they feel bad luck, anxiety, pain, envy and jealousy. And it turns out you know, even those little worker ants seem to ask to us, “Well, do you want to live as one of the 20 percent? Or do you want to live as one of the 80 percent?”
According to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 14.2% of American adults surveyed in 2017 said they had practiced meditation at least once in the last year. That is a dramatic change from 2012, when the number was only 4.1% of adults.
Do you want to be part of the movement of improving the mind? Self-reflection and mind cleansing meditation is the place to start.
Source: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db325.htm