In the 1950’s Dr. Curtis Richter tried a study that many called brutal even barbaric. The outcome was astounding.
Follow me down this rabbit hole.
I hope you won’t quit reading.
Dr. Richter placed rats in a pool of water to see how long they would tread water before drowning.
On average they’d give up and sink after 15 minutes. He tried this many different times with domestic and wild rats.
Each time the end was about the same.
He was surprised to see that the wild rats supposedly known for their swimming abilities, died just as fast if not sometimes faster than their domestic counterparts.
So he changed up the experiment.
Instead of leaving them in to drown, and right before they gave up due to exhaustion, researchers would pluck them out, dry them off, and let them rest for a couple of minutes.
Then they put them in for a second round.
In this second try, how long do you think they lasted?
Remember, they had just swam until exhaustion almost took them a few short minutes ago…
How long do you think?
Another 15 minutes?
10 minutes??
5 minutes?!
No!
60 hours!! 😳
That’s not a typo.
That’s right! 60 hours of swimming.
The conclusion drawn was that since the rats BELIEVED they would eventually be rescued, they could push their bodies way past what they previously thought impossible.
So in simple terms, the answer was hope.
I will leave you with this thought 💭
If hope can cause exhausted rats to swim for that long, what could a belief in yourself and your abilities do for you?
Remember what you’re capable of.
Remember why you’re here.
Remember who He is and what He did on the cross to make sure you’d be rescued in the end.
Just keep swimming.
~TheWokeAmerican
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