How do you keep yourself disciplined?
During the Indian Police Service (IPS) training, our daily morning PT (physical training) used to start with a warmup run of four laps (total 1.6 KM). It felt super hard in week one. We thought it will become easier once we got used to it, maybe after a few months.Here is the surprise: It never got easier. Running the four warmup laps was always painful, even when we were fit enough to do a cross country of 16 KM.The path of discipline is not easy, and will never be easy. Period.Why is it so hard to stay disciplined?Because we allow our mind to interfere in the path of discipline. Why do we fail to get up early in the morning? Because the mind says, “You are so tired and sleep deprived. Just sleep for 5 minutes more and it will be fine”. Then 5 becomes 10, and it is all the way downhill after that.We allow the fallacy that we will get up early or eat healthy or study well or do the right thing when we get used to it and it becomes a little easier.But it will NEVER get easier. It will never be easy to get up at 5 am, every single day of the year. Not now, not after 10 years.So what should you do? The answer is trivially simple, but also very hard. You have to stop listening to your mind. Just stop. No concession to what your mind says.When you have to do something hard, you have to become a robot. It does not matter how you feel. Who cares? Just execute the plan like a machine. That is the only way.If you decide to go for a run, get up and run. You will feel groggy and your legs will hurt. The pain you feel is exactly the pain everybody else feels. The pain of discipline is the price of happiness.People who win are those who keep going, regardless of how much it hurts.
Is spraying cats with water to discipline them a form of abuse?
Negative reinforcement doesn’t work well, period. With cats it doesn’t work at all. See Punishment (psychology) - Wikipedia and Reinforcement - Wikipedia for details as to why.It’s hard to get a cat to understand that a negative interaction with it connects to a previous behavior. They generally can’t understand speech, just some very basic signals . They don’t use verbal signals among themselves. They learn to use very simple ones with us. Among themselves they mostly talk nonverbally - body language. To talk cat look at the overall posture; the ears, their position, their movement; the tail, the shape of the tail, the movement of the tail. Verbal cat talk come in moments of extreme emotion. Joyful to see you, hungry, angry, terrified…etc.You spray a cat with water and it just learns to avoid you lifting your arm to get the spray bottle. It runs away if you walking to where the spray bottle is kept. At worse it just learns to avoid you altogether depending on how often and severely it’s punished.The same holds true with any kind of negative reinforcement or punishment. You have to reward the cat for doing the behavior you want, not punish them for behavior you don’t want. Especially yelling at your cat - remember they only do that with extreme emotions. They might get used to constant yelling, but that means they’re ignoring it.Even more generally if a cat does something you don’t like: spraying, scratching, attacking other cats, you, children, whatever. The problem is not the cat.It’s you, the children, the environment, something about the other cats. They don��t understand, they feel threatened, they lack territory or safe spaces, they don’t like the litter, or litter box placement. You have to watch them, learn how they talk nonverbally and see what they tell you. They will be talking to you, yelling at you, screaming at you silently.Imagine a cat as a furry autistic 4yo that will never be able to speak to you, and you’ll have a much better model to work with. A cat is not a human or a child or a dog. It’s a cat.
Is vinegar toxic to cats? I was told when adopting that vinegar is toxic to cats, and I should not clean with it. Everything I read online says it's fine, but I'd like to be very safe.
No, vinegar (normal, edible vinegar - concentrations around 4-8%) is not toxic to cats - or dogs. Keep in mind that both cats and dogs as susceptible to the same kinds of foods. Vinegar, pure, is just acetic acid [1,2]. So, if you had a very concentrated form of vinegar (for whatever reason), really what you have is a very concentrated weak acid. This would be harmful to animals and people alike. The pH ranges, but normal vinegar is at a pH of around 3 [1]. So, yes, vinegar is acidic, hence it's bitter taste. But just because a cat is smaller does not mean this same substance will somehow become more acidic and/or dangerous. Rather, since cats tend to avoid acidic substances (even seen a cat lick a lemon?), if my cat were to lap up a taste of vinegar, he would immediately recoil and might experience some minor discomfort. It would irritate the tongue and possibly the throat; I don't see any other reactions unless a significant amount is forcibly ingested.Since acetic acid is a normal byproduct of many foodstuffs and biochemical processes (think ketone body conversion), there is no reason to believe it will interact in any special way with any of a cat's internal organs/mechanisms. That said, you don't want to feed a cat vinegar; while humans can ingest significant amounts of vinegar, we have more volume. Cats, with a smaller volume, would be affected faster by any addition of an acid (or base) to their systems.Since you've read any online articles you can find, I don't need to cite the foods that you should avoid feeding to your cat(s). [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vin...[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace...
What is your worst "bad veterinarian" story?
I have been a veterinary technician for almost 20 years and have worked with dozens of doctors. Some were excellent, some were OK, and some were absolutely horrible. I've worked with doctors who gave away products and services for free and I've worked with doctors who lied to their clients and charged them for things they never received. I've worked with doctors who would do anything to save a pet's life and I've worked with doctors who wouldn't touch a dying animal unless an estimate was approved by the client. So, I would like to hear about some bad experiences you have had at your veterinary office. Come on lets hear some of the ugly TRUTH about this profession. I think it will be for everyone's benefit to hear about "reality at the vets office."
I still want to go to medical school. But gpa is too low + bad record! What to do?
Hi. I'm a senior at a pretty prestigious college, and I want to go to medical school. Freshman year was ok, but sophomore year I got into trouble with the Administrative Board. I let my friend copy a Computer Science assignment and was caught months later. They put me on a one-year disciplinary probation while forcing my friend to withdraw. Things got pretty bad for me as I spiraled into depression. I ended up with 3 C-'s on my record, and thus putting my current overall GPA at 3.29. My science GPA is barely above a 3.0. Med school has been a dream, but when advisers at my school look at my situation, they don't know what to tell me. I hope someone can offer me some helpful advice as to where to go next. I plan on teaching after graduation, but I'd rather study medicine. Thanks!
What should I write under the column of "discipline/subjects/trade of class 10?
As per my understanding and knowledge you have studied Either Hindi or English, Social Science( History, Geography, civics)Maths, Natural Science( Physical, Chek, Bio) etc.These are some subjects which you have to fill as per your subject which you have studied.
How can I train my cat to stay out of the kitchen?
well it sounds like you're doing the right thing with the "no"... if necessary (for example if your cat just stands there and meows/chirps at you...) feel free to chase her away, especially if she's setting foot into the kitchen and she'll quickly get the message. She may be slightly offended, but don't worry about hurting her feelings. Make sure that you don't have tempting food lying around... tuna, turkey, any food really! (I've had my cat come crying once when we cooked green split pea soup... it was very weird.) And also, if possible, don't keep your cat's food (like the main food supply) in the kitchen, or she may hang about there waiting for it, even if her food bowl is in another room. As for the mess laundry bags-- try taking some masking tape, and putting it all over the laundry bag (loop it so that it will stick both to the bag and have a sticky side facing outwards). I'm pretty sure I've read this as a way to keep your cat off your furniture... when they go to climb, their paws will get a little stuck and they'll dislike the feeling. I'd probably using masking tape as it's not too sticky (duct tape would be too sticky) and your cat can clearly see it and won't be as likely to eat any of it like Scotch tape. Good luck, hope those helped!