You are remembered for the rules you break.
Hunger makes all the difference
The satiated man and the hungry one do not see the same thing when they look upon a loaf of bread.
-Rumi, poet and mystic (1207-1273)
Discipline
Discipline is not something one needs to forcefully comply with but to develop a taste for like food, sleep, music etc.
We start failing when we change routines routinely.
(Please do clear the context of `routine' from this)
(Please do clear the context of `routine' from this)
An idea can change the throne
A king can stand people fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.
-Will Rogers, humorist (1879-1935)
Undergraduation
In workouts a football player may bench press 300 pounds, even though he may never have to exert anything like that much force in the course of a game. Likewise, if your professors try to make you learn stuff that's more advanced than you'll need in a job, it may not just be because they're academics, detached from the real world. They may be trying to make you lift weights with your brain.
-Paul Graham in his article titled UnderGraduation
Duty before Right
The most important lesson I learnt in my life was from my illiterate mother who taught me all rights come from a duty well done.
- Mahatma Gandhi in his autobiography
False Belief: A Hindrance to Success
There is a story told of a baby elephant in Tibet tied about the ankle with a rope. The rope would not hold an adult elephant, but it holds the baby tight even as it struggles to free itself. The baby resigns itself to the fact that it cannot move outside of the parameters of the rope, no matter how hard it tries.
Eventually, the elephant reaches adulthood, the same little rope about his ankle. Now, little effort would be required to snap the rope and walk away, but the elephant doesn't even bother to try. He is bound only by his belief that he is unable to escape, which is just as effective as his captors.
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? How many of us are being held back by old, outdated beliefs that no longer serve us? Have you avoided trying something new because of a limiting belief? Worse, how many of us are being held back by someone else’s limiting beliefs?
Credit:
- A Blog entry by manogat
- Why Elephants Don't Run, a feature article by Jim Donovan
- Also mentioned @ Ties that bind: How belief creates birth realities
- Elephant Stories
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