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As a man was passing a heard of 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,” the 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.
Author Unknown
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