Force yourself to enjoy the little wins

In a research, a kind show of strength contest between two mice, they were forced into a tube to push one another in order to reach the opposite exit.

The winner kept winning and winning, even if they had similar body weight and physical features.

Once the researchers helped the loosing mouse, pushing him from behind a few times to win, he developed a winner mentality and started winning by himself.

So forcing yourself to win, pushing from behind is kind of hard, but you can force yourself to find little wins hidden in bad days.

Is a training exercise for your brain.

When you find yourself winning, your brain register that event and creates a framework for himself to make decisions in the future.

It means that if you are facing a situation with a given amount of risk involved, your brain will ponder differently the odds at winning this time based on the past winning events: if you have won consistently in the past, you will probably win this time also.

What advantage is derived from this? Well, it will give you a time frame edge, since the winners will hesitate less, they will move first.

It will also give you an “entitlement edge”, because if you are a winner, you deserve the desired outcome, and if someone or something is threatening what is yours by right, then you will fight harder to maintain or get what you deserve.

Forcing yourself to find and enjoy micro wins, wins hidden in catastrophes and wins that may seem irrelevant, will help you build that winner stack, tricking your brain.

You will be training yourself to be the winner just like the little mouse in the tube contest.