Delanceyplace.com 09/21/06-Elephants

Today's encore excerpt is on the constraining impact of the past:

"The best advice I ever got was from an elephant
trainer in the jungle outside Bangalore. I was doing a
hike through the jungle as a tourist. I saw these
large elephants tethered to a small stake. I asked
him, 'How can you keep such a large elephant tied to
such a small stake?' He said, 'When the elephants
are small, they try to pull out the stake, and they
fail.  When they grow large, they never try to pull
out the stake again.' That parable reminds me that
we have to go for what we think we're fully capable of, not limit ourselves by what we've been in the past."

Paul Vivek, quoted in "The Best Advice I Ever Got,"
Fortune, March 21, 2005, p. 100.

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