Mother Turkeys, predictably, love their offspring.
Standard.
They also hate polecats and will attack them first to try and protect said children.
Makes sense.
Turns out though that there is a very specific trigger for the mothering behaviour of the turkey.
It’s not their colouring, shape, size or smell.
It’s the cheep-cheep noise the little ones make.
Make the right noise and mamma will look after you.
Don’t make it for some reason and she will either ignore or kill you.
Take a dead polecat, stick a speaker inside it so it makes the right cheep-cheep noise………..
## Note – Do not actually do this. It would be mental ##
And the Turkey will ‘mother’ said polecat.
Turn the speaker off and she will immediately attack her sworn enemy.
Madness I’m sure you’ll agree!
Thing is though, said trigger has worked well for the Turkey.
From an evolutionary perspective, it’s been fine.
The vast majority of baby Turkeys have been looked after.
And they wouldn’t have been expecting some mean scientist to mess with them by sticking a speaker in a polecat, would they?
We all have triggers you know.
Little shortcuts in our brain that help us get so much done on a daily basis.
But……..
The triggers, as with the Turkey, aren’t always what we’d expect.
In experiments, when people ask to cut a line to do some photocopying without giving a reason, it works about 60% of the time.
Give a reason and it increase to about 95% of the time.
Makes sense.
Thing is though, the actual reason givens makes next to no difference on the success rate.
“Because I’m in a rush” or “Because the kids are waiting in the car”……….
Has no better success rate then………..
“Because I have some photocopying to do” or “Because I have 20 pages” or “Because it’s for a school project”.
The word “because” (or equivalent) is our trigger.
As long as the next bit makes sense it doesn’t really need add any actual justification.
Knowing what our actual triggers are, not just assuming, can be key for helping us work round them.
Was the other half offering the glass of wine really the trigger?
Or had it already happened two days before when you went shopping?
Was your colleague offering you the cake really the trigger?
Or was it when you had the chance the night before to prep some healthier snacks and didn’t?
And so on.
Often times, by the time we make a “bad decision” it’s already too late.
We’ve allowed ourselves too far down a path and are willing solely on ‘willpower’.
Figure out your actual ‘trigger’.
The bit where, if you make a different decision, what comes after is relatively easy.
And go from there 🙂
Much love,
Jon ‘Poledancer’ Hall and Matt ‘Poleposition’ Nicholson
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