Poor man suffering from superstitions

Johan Cruyff has been a famous Dutch footballer. He retired in 1984. In 1999, the International Federation of Football named him the best European footballer of the twentieth century. Globally, he came in second after first. He used to slap his goalkeeper in the abdomen before every match. In fact, Cruyff was under the illusion that the Dutch team would win the match.

It wasn't just Johan Cruyff's case, well-educated and well-versed people have also been found in some form of superstition. For example, the famous American tennis player Serena Williams hits the ball five times on the ground during the first serving. He believes that this is how the goddess of fortune becomes kind to him.

Similarly, British singer Jennifer Aniston has a habit of always landing on the ground with her feet straight when getting off the plane. The reason is that she is weak in faith so that she will be safe from disasters. The fact is that almost everyone has a superstitious habit, from touching a particular tree to walking around a ladder. He believes that this habit will bring good luck and drive away misfortune.

Interestingly, most habits are weird and even funny. Then they don't always have to provide the same kind of happiness. Not only this, with the help of fire you can do welding. For example, Rizwan has a habit of making tea when the water in the kettle starts to boil. However, pouring hot water into a cup also makes tea.

The simple definition of a repetitive behavior habit is to do something that you don't have to think about, and that's why you get into habits so quickly. Because you don't have to stress the mind while doing it. In fact, there is a mechanism in our brain that it adopts new habits very quickly. So gradually it becomes a habit. But this mechanism is not limited to human beings, Allah Almighty has also ordained animals.

Pigeons, for example, have superstitious habits. Evidence of this can be found in the experience of the famous American psychologist BF Sixes. At the beginning of the BF Six Lecture, the audience was shown a cage. It was fitted with an automatic feeder that would drop the grain in front of the pigeons every 15 seconds.

BF Sixes would then lock five, six hungry pigeons in a cage. As usual, they would move around in the cage and start eating grains. After a few minutes, the cage would disappear from view. About an hour later, the cage reappeared in front of the audience. Then it would be revealed to the audience that different habits have been born in different pigeons.

For example, a pigeon would fly three times to attract a feeder. The other would hide his head in the right corner of the cage for a few moments. The wings have been shown solely to give a sense of proportion. Within an hour, almost all the pigeons developed special habits that they would repeat over and over again.

According to BF Six's interpretation, the reason for this strange behavior is simple as well as innovative. In fact, we know that pigeons will get food every 15 seconds, no matter how unique they behave. But pigeons are not aware of this fact.

Imagine for a second you were transposed into the karmic driven world of Earl. You know very little about the human world. Similarly, you are unfamiliar with cages or automatic feeders. When the grain ran out in the feeder, you would move around. Then you decided to go around and see the feeder three times. Coincidentally, the food reappeared on the third turn, the same thing happened the second and third time. Obviously, then this action of yours will become your habit.

Tony Dickinson, a psychologist at Cambridge University, conducted a rare experiment to understand the nature of habit formation. He taught caged mice that when a lever or a hook is pressed, food comes out of the feeder. In a week and a half, the rats learned to extract food from the feeder by squeezing the liver.

Then something strange happened. When the feeder was empty and no food came out by pressing the lever, the rats would still press it. It was as if he had become accustomed to pressing the lever, even though he no longer had food. There was a chance or an opportunity to meet. So despite the failure, he kept pressing the lever.

The same thing happens with humans. Many actions do not meet the test of reason, but the man repeats them in the hope that success may come. This process gradually turns into a habit and eventually into superstition. It is as if these processes have become ingrained in our DNA and therefore do not leave our lives.

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