{"id":148,"date":"2015-02-23T08:40:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T16:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-fbq-15w\/?p=148"},"modified":"2015-02-23T08:40:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T16:40:17","slug":"21-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-fbq-15w\/2015\/02\/23\/21-days\/","title":{"rendered":"21 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"

It takes 21 days to make an action a habit. Just 21 days to engrain something into your mind. After 21 days you won\u2019t have to actively think about performing a certain action. It will become passive action, an absent minded action. After 21 days, it will become a natural part of your daily routine.<\/p>\n

As our time in Refugio Bartola comes to a close, after 21 days ironically, I have experienced how actions that seemed so abnormal to me on day one have become a part of my daily routine. As a reflection of my time spent in the rainforest, I have decided to focus on 21 things that have become a habit. 21 things that are now engrained in my memory. 21 things I will never forget.<\/p>\n

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  1. Tethering a dragonfly in less than 30 seconds.<\/li>\n
  2. Being content with putting on slightly damp clothes every day.<\/li>\n
  3. Knowing how to get my sunken boot out of mud that comes up to my knee.<\/li>\n
  4. Avoiding bullet ants at any cost. Or any bugs larger than my pinky finger for that matter.<\/li>\n
  5. Knowing how to get numerous termites off my backpack after I absentmindedly put it on a huge termite trail.<\/li>\n
  6. Having no phone or internet access and loving every second of it.<\/li>\n
  7. When losing my footing fighting the split-second response to grab the nearest tree next to me since they usually have very long, sharp spines on their bark.<\/li>\n
  8. Having the stamina to hike almost 6 miles every day, in addition to realizing it\u2019s alright to just sit down in the mud when the trails gets too hard to maneuver.<\/li>\n
  9. Learning how to identify and catch strawberry frogs.<\/li>\n
  10. Using numbers and colors of trail markers to know exactly where I am.<\/li>\n
  11. Knowing how to maneuver up very steep slopes only using the vines in the mud as grips for my feet.<\/li>\n
  12. Following a troop of monkeys, regardless of where they take me.<\/li>\n
  13. Recruiting three girls to remove large insects, including a five-inch long praying mantids from our room.<\/li>\n
  14. Being able to identify the animal by its eye-shine.<\/li>\n
  15. Having to revise my classification of small, medium, and large spiders. Black widows at home are tiny compared to the spiders I have seen here.<\/li>\n
  16. Watching my step on muddy trails to avoid stepping on turtles.<\/li>\n
  17. Avoiding hummingbirds and bats that come really close to crashing into my face at full speed.<\/li>\n
  18. Knowing what trees to stand under when it starts pouring buckets during our experiments.<\/li>\n
  19. Clearing spider webs from trails without having the spider swing into my face or on my clothes.<\/li>\n
  20. Avoid spraying DEET too close to my mouth since it turns my lips numb.<\/li>\n
  21. Not screaming when something starts crawling in my hair. Or in my shirt, pants, and boots.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So there we have it. 21 things I will never forget. Habits I hopefully will be able to use again sometime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    It takes 21 days to make an action a habit. Just 21 days to engrain something into your mind. After 21 days you won\u2019t have to actively think about performing a certain action. It will become passive action, an absent minded action. After 21 days, it will become a natural part of your daily routine. … Continue reading 21 Days<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-field","category-vivien","category-week-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-fbq-15w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-fbq-15w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-fbq-15w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-fbq-15w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-fbq-15w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-fbq-15w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-fbq-15w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-fbq-15w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-fbq-15w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-fbq-15w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}