{"id":6518,"date":"2021-02-04T21:08:30","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T15:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/?p=6518"},"modified":"2021-02-04T21:38:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T15:53:53","slug":"the-chicken-cage-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/2021\/02\/04\/the-chicken-cage-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chicken Cage Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-large\"><p>Every night before going to sleep, we must ask ourselves: what weakness did I overcome today? What virtue did I acquire? ~ Seneca<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube alignwide wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Shawn Mendes - Youth ft. Khalid\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sJUGAIf1Px0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption><sup>Shawn Mendes &#8211; Youth ft. Khalid<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn&#8217;t know until yesterday early morning (<em>which was about 3AM<\/em>), that there was this thing called <strong>&#8216;The Chicken Cage Syndrome&#8217;.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom Bilyeu&#8217;s podcast <em>(Impact Theory<\/em>) guest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.martinlindstrom.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Martin Lindstrom<\/a> (<em>best selling author of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/ministryofcommonsense\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ministry of Common Sense<\/a>)<\/em> went to explain this psychological disease programmed in all of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>He unpacks: <\/strong>(<em>I just hope I don&#8217;t butcher his story line<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>A chicken was put inside a beautiful cage for a period of roughly six months. Then, one fine day, an owner decided to bring the cage (with the chicken still inside; who&#8217;s been there for all its life) &#8212; out into this beautiful green grass court, on a clear blue sky. Sun shinning out bright. Birds singing and the freedom awaiting!<\/p><p>The cage was then set open. And now, what happened next was an important discovery.<\/p><p>So yes, as anticipated, she gets out of the cage. Slowly and carefully measuring her steps &#8212; centimeters away from the cage whenever she takes one. <\/p><p>Confused. Cocked!<\/p><p>Anxious. Alarmed! <\/p><p>Frozen. Frightened! <\/p><p>And later within just about 30 seconds, she rushes back into <strong>that same beautiful cage<\/strong>!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-larger-font-size\">This is <strong>Chicken Cage Syndrome.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Gist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We all love our cages. We all have one.<\/strong> Don&#8217;t we?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our safety net. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our comfortable bubble. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our dear attachment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Change must be expected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Change must be accepted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That, Change is inevitable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That, Change is your friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And to sum it all up: Just make it easy for yourself by acknowledge the fact that\u00a0<strong>Change, my friend is for the best!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, as I self-reflect and self-associate myself on that genuinely intellectual podcast interview by Mr. Bilyeu (<em>can&#8217;t thank him enough<\/em>):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That, in my own personal life, I&#8217;ve been a victim of this one particular psychic challenge for so many fucking times. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps so have you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>So. Have. You!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>But, a big BUT &#8212; from this point forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, of course,  take it as a food for your tasty brain, words from the wise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please Don&#8217;t Get caught up in the Chicken Cage yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have appetite for surprises. Matter of fact, produce &#8216;surprises&#8217; once-in-a-while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, most certainly, don&#8217;t worship confinements. Comfort. Convenience. Ever!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>p.s. To answer Seneca&#8217;s initial quote above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday night, I concluded that Today, I overcame my weakness of being easily intimidated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I acquired the virtues of<strong> truly listening<\/strong>, <strong>of keeping the cool-headedness despite chaos<\/strong>, <strong>of not giving too many fucks for things that doesn&#8217;t matter at all.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Namaste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span> Every night before going to sleep, we must ask ourselves: what weakness did I overcome today? What virtue did I acquire? ~ Seneca I didn&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/2021\/02\/04\/the-chicken-cage-syndrome\/\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Chicken Cage Syndrome<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[82],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6518"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6518"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6526,"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6518\/revisions\/6526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bijays.com.np\/musicpervs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}