Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right!

Whether you believe you can or you believe you can't, you're right. You know how they train elephants? A little baby elephant is born. They take a little rope and they tie one of the legs of the elephant to the tree and the baby elephant kicks and tries to get out of it hundreds of times, thousands of times, but he can't. He gives up. And now years later, the baby elephant turns into a massive, powerful elephant that you don't want to start up with in an alley in Queens. And here is the amazing fact. With one kick, the elephant could break the chain or tear the rope and get out. But it doesn't even try because as a baby, it knew it tried and it can't. And when I read about this, I thought, "This is true about elephants. How often is it true about people? What's the mistake of this elephant? This elephant is being bound. It's a victim to its own belief that it can't. It could. It just thinks it can't. How many of us when we were young, we also tried to run, but somebody held us down. Maybe something within oursel held us down. And for the rest of our lives, we're tied by that chain. We are victims of our own belief system.