Break The Shackles Of Your Mind

I have read this story before. You may have read it too, but it is worth writing here as you can take home the message that I want to give. A child was visiting a zoo and saw an elephant. He saw that the elephant was tied to a small bamboo with a small rope. He just wondered what if the elephant goes out of control? His father explains him that this cannot happen. "Why? Does the elephant not have the strength to break this rope." 'The elephant has enough strength, but it does not try.' "Why?"

'When the elephant was small and brought here, they tied it up with a strong chain to a strong Stone. It tried to break free many times. But the stone and the chain both were strong enough. Many a times it even got blood all over its legs where the chain was fastened. It tried many times but could not succeed. It then gave up on trying to break the chain. After a few days, it did not try at all. The chain was then changed to rope. But the elephant did not notice. He could tell anybody with his experience that you may try however hard, but will not succeed in breaking the chain. Slowly the chain changed to a rope. But the mindset that the elephant had, did not change. It was so set in his mind that he could not notice that today it is more strong. Today it can break not only that small rope but even the big chain. However, his mind tells him otherwise. In it's mind there is a image of him trying to break the chain, but failing. Slowly it became the mark on his mind.'

This is our own story. Right from childhood, there are patterns that are made on our mind. Time is changing, so is our education, information and technology in general. With this, many boundaries are fainting and we need to reinvent new patterns. We have to break the patterns that have already been made in our mind and which are not able to allow us to fly. Change the pattern. Instead of thinking, this is not possible, ask why it is not possible. Probably, you will see that today it is possible and you are the one to make it possible. 

You can imagine our plight had Thomas Edison decided not to do any more experiments because all had failed. But instead of that, he broke the failure mode and did that 10000th experiment and succeeded. And see his outlook - He says that he knows 10000 ways how bulb cannot be made. Think before rejecting any idea. You can break the jail and come out of it.