4 motivational stories to push you forward in life

These 4 motivational stories they will push you forward in your life

A gentleman walks through an elephant camp and notices that the elephants are not kept in cages or on chains.

All that prevents them from escaping the camp is a small rope tied to one of their legs.

The man is confused as to why the elephants don't just use their strength to break the rope and escape the camp. They could easily do that, but instead they don't try at all.

Curious and wanting to know the answer, he asks the trainer nearby why the elephants just stand there and never try to escape.

The coach answers:

“When they are very young and much smaller, we use the same size rope to tie them up and at that age it is enough to hold them. As they grow up, they are forced to believe that they cannot break away. They believe that the rope can still hold them as it did when they were small, so they never try to break free. "

The only reason the elephants don't break free and run away from the camp is that over time they have come to believe that this is simply not possible.

In a small Italian town, hundreds of years ago, a small business owner owed a large sum of money to a local loan shark. The usurer is a very old, unattractive-looking guy who, however, likes the debtor's daughter.

He offers the businessman a deal that will completely wipe out the debt he owes. The catch, though, is that it will only cancel the debt if he marries his daughter.

Needless to say, this proposal was met with disgust.

The moneylender says he will put two pebbles in a bag, one white and one black.

The daughter will then have to reach into the bag and pick out a pebble. If she chose black, the debt would be forgiven, but the moneylender would marry her. If it is white, the debt will also be wiped out, but the daughter will not have to marry him.

Standing in the businessman's garden, the moneylender bends down and picks up two pebbles.

As he picked them up, the daughter noticed that he had taken two black stones and put them in the bag.

The moneylender then asks the daughter to reach into the bag and pick one.

The daughter has three choices of what to do:

1. To refuse to take a pebble from the bag.
2. To remove both stones from the bag and expose the deception.
3. To take a pebble from the bag, knowing it was black, and sacrifice himself for his father's freedom.

She thinks for a while and takes a pebble from the bag and before looking at it "accidentally” he drops it on the ground with the rest of the pebbles. Then he turns to the moneylender:

“Oh, how clumsy of me. It doesn't matter if you look in the bag - the pebble that's left, you'll be able to tell which pebble I chose. "

The pebble left in the bag is obviously black, and since the usurer does not want to be exposed, he must pretend that the pebble the daughter dropped was white and clear the father's debt.

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As a group of frogs travel through the forest, two of them fall into a deep pit. When the other frogs gather around the pit and see how deep it is, they tell the two frogs that there is no hope left for them.

However, the two frogs decided to ignore what the others said and continued to try to jump out of the pit.

Despite their efforts, the group of frogs at the top of the pit still believed they should just give up. That they will never get away.

Finally, one of the frogs in the pit gives up and dies. The other frog continued to jump as far as he could. Again the crowd frogged and screamed to stop the pain and just die.

The frog jumped even harder and finally got away. When he came out, the other frogs said, "Didn't you hear us?"

The frog explained to them that it was deaf. She thought they were encouraging her all the time.

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Once upon a time there was a little boy who had a very bad temper. His father decided to hand him a bag of nails and said that every time the boy lost his temper, he should drive a nail into the fence.

On the first day, the boy drives 37 nails into this fence.

Over the next few weeks, the boy gradually began to control his temper and the number of nails he drove into the fence slowly decreased.

He found it easier to control his temper than to hammer those nails into the fence.

And finally the day came when the boy did not lose his temper at all. He told his father the news, and the father suggested that the boy pull out one nail each day when he kept his temper under control.

Days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the claws were gone. The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence.

“You have done well my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a mark just like this. No matter how many times you say I'm sorry, the wound is still there. "