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«O people; where is the escape ?! And the sea behind you and the enemy in front of you », a phrase transmitted by generations, attributed to the commander of the army of Muslims Tariq ibn Ziyad during his famous sermon on the shores of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain today), in 711 in front of a modest army and the number of troops and only 12 thousand soldiers, After all their ships were burned! They have no lifeline, so they do not retreat today as if he were telling them. Either victory and nothing but victory! Indeed, Andalusia was opened after the army incursion deep into the Spanish territory and Tariq ibn Ziyad and his army achieved a triumphant victory in the Battle of Wadi Lakah, marking the beginning of a new golden age for Muslims.
Some may question the validity of this story, especially the famous sermon and the burning of ships, but that does not matter now may be incorrect, but what caught my attention in this story is how the psychology of the army changed when they had no choice but to go into The battle and victory in it, how does a human think when all options are gone before him? That's why I wrote this article.
Throughout the ages, man has mastered the formation of habits and daily rituals practiced alone or with others. Some of them are good and others are bad, and as the thinker Michael Naima once said, "Humans are tempted by their habits, they know and do not know." But when you are habitually left to a source of respite that extinguishes that incandescent human energy and kills all the tremendous potential that was born with you When you come to this land, this is a great calamity, then the habit becomes like a prison that voluntarily placed yourself between its walls. For example, the article shows, this may be a comfortable job with a good salary and little work that provides you with the basics of a decent life but does not live up to your future aspirations. The same time you do not want to give up, because the job It is usually, or in other words, "back up plan" that protects you from the vicissitudes of time but also prevents you from progressing.
Burn your ship until you sail! What is meant by the ship here is the source of the laziness and inactivity that has made you devoid of power, which drained of your free spirit until the arrival of the Kalomis. In this regard, the German philosopher Nietzsche says: "The secret of the greatest fruit harvest and the pleasure of existence is to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vizov », so burned the places of laziness in you and the habits that you lived alive, throw yourself between the jaws of the shark, and cancel all alternative plans so that you have no choice but progress and nothing else, as happened in the story of Tariq ibn Ziyad and his army, Which you have are the illusions you made yourself.
Burn your ship until it sails.
In my next article, I will detail the role of amygdala in creating human fear of change, the habitual shift, and what neuroscientists have discovered in this regard.
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