Can 2 pendulums, attached at the same points, with differing weights and lengths, swing in Unison? Incredibly...YES. It is a phenomenon called" ENTRAINMENT". Yup entrainment. Up until this past week, it was new to me also. I was told that no one knows why. If you swing the pendulums at random different speeds and directions, they will eventually pair up and swing in perfect unison and rhythm.
People are no different, over time you and I will become just like the people we hang around with. You may be very positive, but if you hang around with negative people you will find yourself being negative also. What about our mind and thoughts? No matter what we are talking about, it is said that we ALWAYS think it, before we do, say, or become it. We are what we think about. We are what we focus on.
Horse are no different, they learn by repetition. My horse, Yogi, has been trained by repetition to take 1 bite of food and then back off when we enter his stall at feeding time. "That which we persist in doing gets easier, not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to accomplish the task has". My mentor, friend and roping buddy Kevin, always said"Marlon, you will never ride any better than the people you ride with". Entrainment is certainly proof positive that it is true. Depression breeds depression, negativity breeds negativity, and positive breeds positive. A wise man once told me "Keep your face towards the sun and ALL the shadows will fall behind".
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