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Harvard mouse drowning experiment:
In this study mice are placed in a container filled with water that is too high for them to escape. So the mice would struggle to stay afloat but eventually they would be unable to keep swimming and sink to the bottom causing them to drown.
In the first experiment the mice lasted an average of 15 minutes before drowning. The second experiment is where things get interesting they repeated the process except right at the last minute when the mice were sinking to the bottom the researchers saved the mice and gave them a day to rest.
The Insane Results of This...
You would expect the results to be pretty much identical or maybe a bit higher. But the results were insane the mice who were saved when put back into the water lasted an amazing 60 hours! That's about 240X longer on average. The mice were able to last so long because they truly believed if they could just last a bit longer they would be saved again. They pushed well beyond what was previously possible.
What this means for us...
People seriously underestimate how important it is to be hopeful. A person with hope who believes in something can do things well beyond what they should be able to do and in reverse a person with no hope will always be an underachiever in life. This is why I will never criticize things like religion or even borderline delusional ideals. The mouse study is depressing because we know the mice had no hope but in our own lives we are often hopeless about things that are not absolute. People complaining about not having a gf not having money being lonely ect but the chance is not 0. Its only over when you think it is over you can do more then you ever thought possible if you truly believe in yourself.
In later studies of the mices brain waves after they were saved showed the mice had the same neurons activated as humans have when they are praying or doing something religious/visualizing success
It's better to be borderline delusional about this topic then it is to be some depressed blackpiller:
Every person who has achieved anything of extreme significance is delusional on some level. Imagine being someone like Steve Jobs thinking you can change the world how delusional and arrogant. Imagine a kid who believes he can be a star athlete he is delusional and most likely won't even make it to the college level. But all these people even if they fail will accomplish more then negative people who think its out of touch. Its important to be real sometimes but if being blackpilled is bad enough that it makes you want to give up then just leave this site. This should inspire you to go forward and change in every way possible. Even if there is a 1 in a million chance you could be happy there is still a ray of light. Get the surgeries lift weights do all of that and believe you can be something if you aren't using this information to do that leave forever this place is worse for you then it benefits you.
TLDR: Hope is the most important thing humans have we have the ability to create our own hope
In this study mice are placed in a container filled with water that is too high for them to escape. So the mice would struggle to stay afloat but eventually they would be unable to keep swimming and sink to the bottom causing them to drown.
In the first experiment the mice lasted an average of 15 minutes before drowning. The second experiment is where things get interesting they repeated the process except right at the last minute when the mice were sinking to the bottom the researchers saved the mice and gave them a day to rest.
The Insane Results of This...
You would expect the results to be pretty much identical or maybe a bit higher. But the results were insane the mice who were saved when put back into the water lasted an amazing 60 hours! That's about 240X longer on average. The mice were able to last so long because they truly believed if they could just last a bit longer they would be saved again. They pushed well beyond what was previously possible.
What this means for us...
People seriously underestimate how important it is to be hopeful. A person with hope who believes in something can do things well beyond what they should be able to do and in reverse a person with no hope will always be an underachiever in life. This is why I will never criticize things like religion or even borderline delusional ideals. The mouse study is depressing because we know the mice had no hope but in our own lives we are often hopeless about things that are not absolute. People complaining about not having a gf not having money being lonely ect but the chance is not 0. Its only over when you think it is over you can do more then you ever thought possible if you truly believe in yourself.
In later studies of the mices brain waves after they were saved showed the mice had the same neurons activated as humans have when they are praying or doing something religious/visualizing success
It's better to be borderline delusional about this topic then it is to be some depressed blackpiller:
Every person who has achieved anything of extreme significance is delusional on some level. Imagine being someone like Steve Jobs thinking you can change the world how delusional and arrogant. Imagine a kid who believes he can be a star athlete he is delusional and most likely won't even make it to the college level. But all these people even if they fail will accomplish more then negative people who think its out of touch. Its important to be real sometimes but if being blackpilled is bad enough that it makes you want to give up then just leave this site. This should inspire you to go forward and change in every way possible. Even if there is a 1 in a million chance you could be happy there is still a ray of light. Get the surgeries lift weights do all of that and believe you can be something if you aren't using this information to do that leave forever this place is worse for you then it benefits you.
TLDR: Hope is the most important thing humans have we have the ability to create our own hope
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