Huge creatures like elephants are held by only a small rope tied to their front leg. No chains, no cages. It is obvious that the elephants could, at anytime, break away from the ropes they are tied to but for some reason, they do not.
A trainer explains why these beautiful, magnificent animals just stood there and made no attempt to get away.
“Well,” he says , “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.”
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?
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