As a man was passing the elephants, he suddenly stopped, confused by
the fact that these huge creatures were being held by only a small rope
tied to their front leg. No chains, no cages. It was obvious that the
elephants could, at anytime, break away from their bonds but for some
reason, they did not.
He saw a trainer nearby and asked why these
animals just stood there and made no attempt to get away. “Well,”
trainer said, “when they are very young and much smaller we use the same
size rope to tie them and, at that age, it’s enough to hold them. As
they grow up, they are conditioned to believe they cannot break away.
They believe the rope can still hold them, so they never try to break
free.”
The man was amazed. These animals could at any time break
free from their bonds but because they believed they couldn’t, they were
stuck right where they were.
Like the elephants, how many of us
go through life hanging onto a belief that we cannot do something,
simply because we failed at it once before?
Failure is part of learning; we should never give up the struggle in life.
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