How Cats Teach Us Confidence and Self‑Assurance
The first characteristic of cats is their supreme confidence in themselves. They know who they are, follow the pattern of their species and expect the world to fall in line with their wants. They move around with assurance. As a result, humans become entranced and amazed by them. At first glance, this is a selfish way to behave. Yet without being sure of themselves, a person is left floundering and wondering whether they are doing the right thing, whatever that is. Lesson number one we can learn from cats is to believe in ourselves.
Cats’ confidence comes from knowing what they want. While a cat’s life is less complicated than a human’s because they are unwilling to complicate what they have to do, humans can take this example of how to arrange their own lives. For humans having a dream and working towards it in manageable chunks is the second lesson. Knowing where you are going is much easier than trying to choose which path to take at every junction.
Some human households have been adopted by adult cats in spite of the people not encouraging the animals. Something about the way those people who offers the cat the sanctuary, warmth, care, companionship and above all, food, that satisfies the needs of the cat. In return they are offered affection, companionship, support when things are rough. The third lesson, choose friends with care and thought. The rewards are greater even if that does appear to be selfish. It makes life easier and allows individuals to be at peace with themselves. Peaceful individuals make good companions.
Having an ability to choose whether to behave as a mature adult or as a child is another characteristic of cats. Within the human household, cats often behave as kittens. Children and babies are universally catered to by human adults with common sense and understanding. Cats doesn’t seen to have to be told this, they just know. Their patience with human offspring is amazing even though they will administer discipline in the same way they do to their kittens. The fourth lesson that we can learn from cats is to know when behave like an adult and when to be able to play like a child and learn to find what you want.
Stubbornness and an inability to change their pre programming is an adverse lesson from cats. They will cross a road without looking assuming that cats will avoid them, they do not alter their habits even when they would benefit from doing so. The fifth lesson is be aware of changes in life, however uncomfortable it may be. Being rigid and repeating unsuccessful patterns goes nowhere.
One of the most charming characteristics of cats is their ability to persuade and seduce. Whether it is their ability to do the most unrefined activities such as using different voices to plead for what they want, humans fall for their tricks most of the time, usually with a smile of self knowledge that they have succumbed to blackmail. The sixth lesson is to learn how to be persuasive to achieve what you want in life.
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