Mind Set - Worth a read --- Good one!

Here's a story about George Dantzig - the famed mathematician who's
contributions to Operations Research and systems engineering have made
him immortal.

As a college student, George studied very hard and often late into the night.
So late, that he overslept one morning, arriving 20 minutes late for
Prof. Neyman's class.
He quickly copied the two maths problems on the board, assuming they
were the homework assignment.
It took him several days to work through the two problems, but finally
he had a breakthrough and dropped the homework on Neyman's desk the
next day.

Six weeks later, on a Sunday morning, George was awakened at 6 a.m. By
hs excited professor.
Since George was late for class, he hadn't heard the professor
announce that the two unsolvable equations on the board were
mathematical mind-teasers.

But,George Dantzig, working without any thoughts of limitation, had
solved not one, but two problems that had stumped mathematicians for
thousands of years.

Simply put, George solved the problems because he didn't know he couldn't.

You are not limited to the life you now live.
It has been accepted by you as the best you can do at this moment.
Any time you're ready to go beyond the limitations currently in your
life, you're capable of doing that by choosing different thoughts.
All you must do is figure out how you can do it, not whether or not you can.
And once you have made your mind up to do It, it's amazing how your
mind begins to figure out how.

A person is limited only by the thoughts that he/she chooses.

A few days ago as I was passing some tame elephants, I suddenly
stopped, confused by the fact that these huge creatures were being
held by only a small rope tied to their front leg.
No chains, no cages.
It was obvious that the elephants could, at anytime, break away from
the ropes they were tied to but for some reason, they did not.

I saw the mahout (elephant trainer) near by and asked why these
beautiful, magnificent animals just stood there and made no attempt to
get away.

"Well," he said, "when they are very young and much smaller we use the
same size rope to tie them and, at that age, it's enough to hold them.
As they grow up, they are conditioned to believe they cannot break away.
They believe the rope can still hold them.
So, they never try to break free"

I was amazed!
These animals could at any time break free from their bonds but
because they believed they couldn't, they were stuck right where they
were.

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?