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Look at this giant elephant in the circus!
They take this little rope,
put it around the elephant's foot,
and they drive this stake into the ground.
You look at this, and you know
that elephant could rip down the entire
tent with almost no effort.
Yet, the elephant doesn't struggle,
doesn't try. Why?
Because the elephant's conditioned.
They condition the elephant when
it's a baby elephant.
That's how they train them.
When it's a little baby elephant
and it doesn't have the power, yet,
they put a big rope around it,
and they drive this huge stake in the ground.
The elephant fights and fights and fights.
One day, finally, that elephant decides,
"I'm not capable of pulling this out."
Once that becomes the definition of
an identity of anyone - an elephant,
in this case - they don't even try, anymore.
"It's just who I am. That's how it is.
That's just the way it is in my life."
"Very often people say, "Well, I can't do that.
I'm not that kind of person."
Very often, we made decisions in our youth,
about what to believe,
about what we were capable of,
about who we are as a person,
and that becomes the rope that controls us.
BRAKE IT!
