Elephant Thinking

Well, today here I restart my share of learning with you all. Have you heard about “Elephant Thinking”???


Trust me, this is not thinking as big as an elephant. J We all must have seen elephants trained either in circus or on road sides in smaller towns or in temple entrance. Have you ever thought, those elephants always wishes to do whatever its trainer says? Hmmm, no one will like to always do whatever their trainer says right? But elephants become huge enough to escape from its trainer, why does it not escape then?

Let me tell you the reason now… whey they begin to train an elephant, they chain the baby elephant’s leg to a pole in the ground. The baby elephant wants to get away. It pulls and tugs, but it can’t escape – the chain is too big and the pole is too deep in the ground. So, it stops trying. As it grows up, it just ASSUMES that it can’t get away. Today, when it would be a six-ton elephant, it could sneeze and pull out that chain – but it doesn’t even try. Trainers say they can put a piece of string around that six-ton elephant’s leg and it won’t break away. How sad really, isn’t it?

Such assumptions are called as ASSUMED CONSTRAINTS as per Kenneth Blanchard, the one minute manager series author. I was reading this book and realized that in some ways we all have this Elephant Thinking. That means, we never try to do something now which was in our previous failure.

“An Assumed Constraint is a belief you have, based on past experience that limits your current and future experiences.” – Ken Blanchard.

We will check our interesting technical part from Monday as I have learnt a lot about Self-Leadership during Weekends :) .


Have a Great Day!

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