One day, a
gentleman was walking through an elephant camp, and he spotted that the
elephants weren’t being kept in cages or held by the use of chains. All that
was holding them back from escaping the camp, was a small piece of rope tied to
one of their legs.
As the man
gazed upon the elephants, he was completely confused as to why the elephants
didn’t just use their strength to break the rope and escape the camp. They
could easily have done so, but instead, they didn’t try to at all.
Curious and
wanting to know the answer, he asked a trainer nearby why the elephants were
just standing there and never tried to escape.
The trainer
replied "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 only
reason that the elephants weren’t breaking free and escaping from the camp was
that over time they adopted the belief that it just wasn’t possible.
This short
story give us a very good moral about one of the most important keys to success
that anyone must have to achieve his goals, it is a constant belief that we
have the ability to do what we dream. So no matter how much the world tries to
hold you back, always continue with the belief that what you want to achieve is
possible. Believing you can become successful is the most important step in
actually achieving it.
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