Back in the rectum of history, some boys in white coats stuffed a few hundred fleas into a mason jar.
I don’t know where they got the fleas and how they got them into the jar, but it’s probably safe to say there was a lot of cursing and itching.
Once the fleas were in the jar, they kept trying to jump out and hitting their heads against the lid. Eventually, they gave up.
When the researchers took the lid off, the fleas still didn’t try to jump out because they thought it was still there.
There are many other examples of this trainable aspect of nature, in humans too.
But the magic we humans have is the power to think again and un-break ourselves. We can always try another way. We can keep jumping now and then to be sure the lid is still there.
We can resist any training, but we often fail to recognize the psychological bonds we have wrapped around ourselves.
A kaizen mindset means that we always assume the way we’re doing things wrong in some way.
When we learn to challenge our beliefs regularly, we can even distort time.