"HOPE"
Curt P. Richter conducted a group experiment on mice with his assistants at John Hopkins University in 1957.
In these experiments, they aimed to find out how long mice could stay on the water by replacing glass tubes filled with residual water.
In the first experiment, it was observed that some of the mice who tried not to drown immediately gave up and drowned, while those who could last were the ones that the most struggled on water for about15 minutes and finally they quit the struggle.
Afterwards, Dr. Richter and his assistants tried something different. When mice were about to die, they pulled out a group of mice from water, then, They dried them and put them back into the water again and they repeat the process.
In this procedure, the mice managed to survive longer in the water after every rescue. Experiments were repeated after 24 hours, a tremendous difference in endurance emerged between these exposed to the 2. experiment and the first experiment.
The mice that were rescued while they were about to die were actually not desperate at all, they learned that for the first time, the mice that were put into the water were left without much resistance, and they managed to stay for nearly sixty hours.
These rats had learned that they had no end and could survive. After all, they had a reason to try harder and survive.
With repeated experiments he got the same result.
The last sentence of his report also reflected the essence of the experiment.
"Struggle power has become one of the greatest psychological warfare tactics of national intelligence / security units of states to reveal the most important factor of demonstrating performance and capacity. (Today, terrorist organizations also use this tactic intensively)."
The tactic is simple; By placing the belief that "whatever we do, it doesn't matter, nothing will change" is instilled in the target human communities through various channels, hopelessness is instilled in them and a struggle cannot be turned into a fight.
If we believe in ourselves that we will overcome these adverse situations in the face of difficulties and difficulties encountered, and if we live in our hope that the negative conditions will change, our success rate rises and our determination to struggle with the use of our forces increases.
If we think that we cannot overcome difficulties and obstacles, and if we believe that bad conditions will never improve, we give up in a short time and lose just like mice drowned in the water.
"What is done in life is done by hope, whoever despairs loses everything," said Martin Luther.
One should never be hopeless.
*sorry about the bad english