Hope for the best and you shall find it
In the fifties of the last century, the university professor Curt Richte psychological experiments on rats ..
One of his experiments was to bring a group of mice and put each in a large glass vase full of water.
The glass vase is so large that the mouse can not cling to its claws or jump out of the pot.
Richter calculated how long each mouse would swim and try to get out before surrendering to the drowning.
Of course there was a difference between each mouse and the other but on average the mouse was trying for about 15 minutes and then succumb to drowning, Richter re-experiment but with some change ..
When he saw the mouse in its last moments and was about to surrender, he took it out of the pot and dried it and let it rest for a while .. Then put it back in the pot!
Do it with all the mice then take the calculated average time at the second time .. Remember that the first medium was approximately 15 minutes ..
How much do you expect to be the average time on the second try?
More than 60 hours !! .. hours and not minutes! There was a mouse that lasted for about 81 hours.
The analysis of the experiment is that the rats in the first attempt quickly lost hope after they made sure that there was no way out.
While the second time they had previous experience that there is hope and that at any moment may extend them a helping hand to save them so they continued to wait for better conditions.
This story is frequently repeated in Positive Psychology as a sign of the importance of "hope and optimism."
Regardless of the analysis mentioned for the result of the experiment and what they say about the importance of hope .. There is a point I would like to shed light on them: is the extent of the correlation of physical ability to the psychological state ..
It is really dangerous .. Someone may sleep enough hours of sleep and yet do not want to wake up to go to work and feel that he has no energy for it! ..
While another person may sleep one hour and then jump out of bed quickly to prepare for an enjoyable trip with his friends!
You might sit in front of the machine thinking you do not have the ability to work and you do not have enough energy.
While the fact that you have enough and increases but you just do not have the desire to work on what is required of you at that moment ..
It is noticeable that most people can do more when they find encouragement .. They stop working when they do not find enough appreciation ..
This is very dangerous .. Your mind imposes limits on the capabilities of your body .. Or at least Ihmk you exist!
An argument attributed to Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allaah have mercy on him)
Sadness weakens the heart, weakens the resolve, hurts the will, and nothing I love to the devil from the grief of the believer ...
And hope for the good you find him ..