At an international psychology conference in Malaysia, I met a Russian who strongly recommended the positive psychotherapy Theory he founded.

He told an experiment he had done: two mice were thrown into a container full of water, and they would struggle for survival, which usually lasted about 8 minutes. Then, he put the other two mice in the same container. When they struggled for about 5 minutes, he put in a springboard and let them climb out of the container. The two mice survived. A few days later, two surviving mice were put into the same container, and the result was really surprising: the two mice could last for 24 minutes, which was three times as long as normal.

Psychologists conclude that the first two mice, because they have no escape experience, can only rely on their own physical strength to survive; However, the mice who had escaped gained a kind of spiritual strength. They believe that at some point, a springboard will save them and enable them to persist for a longer time. This spiritual strength is a positive attitude, or an inner hope for a good result.

I was thinking about those two mice at that time, and I always felt that it was not a taste. I told him in disgust that there was hope, so what? Finally, they didn't die. To my surprise, just then, he told me: no, they are not dead. By the 24th minute, I saw that they were really dying, so I fished them out.

I asked: Why did you do this?

He said: because rats with a positive attitude are valuable and worth living. We humans should respect all hopes, even the inner hopes of mice.

Hope is power. Many times, the power of hope may be stronger than knowledge, because knowledge can only be better utilized under the background of hope. A person, even if he has nothing, may have everything as long as he has hope, while a person who has everything but no hope may lose everything he has. ()

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