How do humans manage to train elephants that can take our lives with one stomp?
The method used to train elephants for circus shows is actually a lot simpler than expected:
From the moment their born, you simply tie the back of a baby elephant’s leg to a pole.
The baby elephant then cannot escape the pole, even using all its might. As time passes, the elephant will start to define it’s own limits and boundaries, limiting it to the area around the pole. As an adult, even after the elephant develops the force to break the pole, it will not even attempt to. In fact, the elephant will remain to live around the pole even after it is removed.
Now we would ask ourselves, how foolish are elephants?
Well, let’s take this situation and apply it to us, with the elephant being ourselves and the pole being a given situation.
When the elephant eventually grows up to have enough power to break the pole, they will not even attempt to. Similarly, when we as humans are restricted to a certain situation, we define our own limits and even when we are capable, we can not escape it.
Fear always dominates our motivation to achieve goals, and we always start with the reasons of why we cannot do something.
However, we must remember that there is no one in the world who starts with everything they need to pursue a dream.
At first, just like the baby elephant, we may face failure and many reasons of why we are not able. But we can not familiarize ourselves with such thoughts of something being “impossible”, as if you think that way, it will really become impossible. Do not set your own limitations.
Like Nick Vujicic once said
“Fear is the biggest disability of all.”
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