Itzonator Posted June 16, 2010 Share Posted June 16, 2010 Have you ever looked at a circus elephant anchored to the ground? If you have, you might notice that the elephant has a metal collar around its leg to which is attached a small chain. And the small chain is attached to small wooden peg driven into the ground. Pretty good protection? Imagine this elephant was around 13 000 pounds and could easily pick up its foot & with one fell swoop, yank the peg out of the ground and walk away. But the elephant does not ... WHY? When the elephant was a baby, that same collar and chain and peg were used to hold the elephant in place. The resistant was sufficient to hold the baby elephant in place even if it wanted to break away. And break away is indeed what the baby elephant wanted & tried to do. So every day while the baby was chained up, it would pull at the chain and pull until finally a cut appeared on its leg exposing the sore sensitive layers of deep skin tissue. It hurt to pull like that and soon the baby elephant, realizing the effort was both futile & painful, stopped trying to escape. Elephants never forget! As the baby elephant grew older, it never forgot that bad experience with the chain & the peg. And so whenever it was anchored down in a spot, it would think, "Hey, it is impossible to break away and besides in hurts!" The large elephant had an ASSUMED CONSTRAINT. Humans also never forget bad experiences in the past. They alone are victims of their past experiences when judging the present situations and saying to themselves ... I can't, this is impossible, he does not like me because ... , all men lie, women suck, I hate men, I am a virgin - this must be a bad thing ... and so on. Assumed constrains are limitations the large elephant put on itself. So what's your assumed constraint? p.s. The only limitations YOU have, are the ones YOU put on yourself. Link to post Share on other sites
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