Nature is one of the biggest teachers in the world we live in. If you look around you carefully you will find so many qualities you can learn from animals, birds and even trees! We need inspirations in life to keep us going. Staying ahead and performing at your peak comes with disruptions as well as fresh challenges. We always hone into our survival skills to succeed. Fact is that you need to constantly learn new ways to survive. But what do you learn from a small living creature who literally hangs out on a web he built in the swaying winds?
The answer is that spiders have mental behaviours and indeed there are many learnings that qualify for a new mindset. What is a ‘Spider Mindset’ and how do we evolve into this mindset to reap its many benefits? Here are a few pointers about this mindset-
Patience unlimited
A spider is one of the best examples you can ever see in terms of unlimited patience. It takes a lot to construct a web using improvised support from trees and nature. Rains, wind or storms no compromise. A spider creates its ‘cobweb’ or prey catchers using its spinneret glands which come from the tip of its abdomen. The silk that it uses is sticky and therefore spinning a web is extremely difficult. Not only does the spider continue to keep working till this web is completed, but immediately springs into action when this web is destroyed by the winds, weather or even a prey that gets stuck and then somehow escapes. Sometimes the entire web breaks off but without a whimper the spider rolls his sleeves and starts building again. Purpose is all important and success comes from commitment to achieve your purpose with patience and tenacity.
No compromise on quality
There is a mug on my work desk since many years which says ‘Quality only happens if you care enough to do your best’. A spider’s survival depends on the quality of its web, therefore there is never any compromise on quality. Imagine the spider creates the raw material, designs the web in its own small sized brain and creates an engineering marvel each time it creates a web. Not just this, they adjust the webs they spin based on the kinds of prey they want to trap. They do what they are built to do. Any compromise on quality and they will need to go hungry. Do you know that when they are weaving their magic, they create a ‘safe path’ they would use to walk through the web in a way that they don’t get trapped in their own prey catcher. Imagine the eye for details needed and quality consciousness. As they say, each output from you is autographed by you. Make it the best!
Be passion driven
Real passion can do wonders and make you achieve the impossible. A spider is a true example of spontaneous passion. Its inbuilt in them and they go to any extent to achieve it. When a prey gets trapped, a spider can make incredible and precise leaps. You cannot imagine the distance it leaps and its accuracy. Yes, spiders can count, create plans, play mind games and do what they are built to do with incredible passion and precision. Some species of spiders even use their webs for hearing. These are called jungle survival techniques. However, jungle survival comes from deep passion and imagination. Its this passion that even drives teamwork. Did you know that once because of prey scarcity in Pakistan, groups of spiders built webs in the same area? Passion also drives innovation. Some spider families even lay just a strand of sticky silk on the ground. When an insect crosses the strand, the vibration alerts them and they attack their prey with their deadly bite!
“Ten thousand times the web could be destroyed, and ten thousand times the spider would rebuild it. There was neither annoyance nor despair, nor any delight, just as it had been for a billion years.” – Liu Cixin
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