People who manage to escape the rat race tend to have a serious disdain for authority and value their freedom more than anything else. They realize that, in the long run, a life where they can't control their income and time just isn't a way they can tolerate living.
Quiet quitting refers to doing the minimum requirements of one's job and putting in no more time, effort, or enthusiasm than absolutely necessary. As such, it is something of a misnomer, since the worker doesn't actually leave their position and continues to collect a salary.
Individuals who are stuck in the rat race are unhappily going through the motions in life, trudging through the daily grind of their workday feeling unfulfilled, unchallenged, and uninspired until they go home at the end of the day—only to repeat the whole process again.
Two emotions that keep people in Rat Race: fear and greed. Assets put money into your pocket, liabilities take money out from it.
It is a fact that rats do not only have an abstract intelligence but also emotional intelligence. Rats would prefer to starve rather than accept food when another animal has to suffer. Rather, they show compassion and try to help the other animal.
Summary: A single, socially stressful situation can kill off new nerve cells in the brain region that processes learning, memory and emotion, and possibly contribute to depression, new animal research shows.
The human race is an unfair and stupid competition. A lot of the runners don't even get decent sneakers or clean drinking water. Some runners are born with a massive head start, every possible help along the way and still the referees seem to be on their side.
Rats make lifelong bonds with their owners Ask any rat owner, and he or she will tell you: Rats recognize their owners and respond to their sight and voice. They are very social and love to hang out with human family members on the couch or on peoples' shoulders or in their laps.
These experiments establish that rats can communicate fear and induce specific odor fear learning via pheromone information.
Rat Fact - The average IQ of a rat is 105.
Unless they're domesticated, rats are afraid of humans. But if there is no way to escape, a cornered rat would not hesitate to attack a human. For example, the black rat is capable of jumping 70cm into the air. It can climb on a wall and jump on your face.
How Can Mice and Rats Affect Your Mental Health? The presence of rats on your property, especially in the home can trigger stress. Rodents inside the home are considered an invasion. Constantly worrying over this matter will affect your mental health, leading to chronic stress, acute depression, and even phobia.
Over the past few years we've learned much about the moral lives of animals. Detailed studies have shown that mice and chickens display empathy—and now we know rats do, too. A study published recently has provided the first evidence of empathy-driven behavior in rodents.
So, for example, from the human audiogram you can see that people hear pretty well at 1,000Hz; here, the threshold of hearing is a scant 2 decibels. For rats, however, the threshold is more like 24dB. That means that a 20dB sound at 1,000Hz would be easily audible to you but would be entirely inaudible to the rodent.
Neuroscientists in Barcelona report that rats, like humans (newborn and adult) and Tamarin monkeys, can extract regular patterns in language from speech (prosodic) cues.
Rats cry blood when stressed:
Rats have a Harderian gland behind their eyes which secretes a substance called porphyrin during times of stress [4]. It is a red or pink discharge that gives the appearance of a rat crying blood. Usually, a rat will produce small quantities of porphyrin and groom it away.
A three-year longitudinal study of residents living in multifamily buildings in Waterbury, Connecticut, found that residents with rat infestations had poorer mental health than those without rat infestations, and rat exposure triggered headaches, dizziness, and stomachaches.
It's the first time scientists have found direct reciprocation in the animal kingdom. Rats can remember acts of kindness by other rats—and treat them accordingly, a new study says.
Around the world, rats and mice are known to spread over 35 diseases that can infect both people and pets, including: plague. salmonellosis. leptospirosis.
These studies suggest that rats remember at least 32 items in context, episodic memory can withstand at least 15 unpredictable transitions between contexts, and item-in-context memory persists for at least 45 min.