So I’ve been doing alot of motivational reading lately. Yeah yeah I can hear the comments now. Problem is, it works. The more I read up on this stuff, the more the ideas I have had for years become justified and reinforced by people who have “made it” already. The basic idea is simple, and one we’ve all heard for years. Know you can! It’s an unwavering belief that you will succeed, and life puts in your path that which you need most. The power of focused and directed thought is beyond what we allow ourselves to believe. So I have a story, and a theory to pose. First the story.
In 1954 one Roger Bannister did the impossible. For years, everyone said no human could ever run this fast. But he KNEW it was possible. And with an absolute belief it could be done, he ran the mile in 3 minutes and 59.4 seconds. Now here is the important part in this story. In this same year, 14 more people beat the 4 minute mile! All over the world people saw it was possible and their belief changed!
When I was a kid (I don’t know if anyone else did this too) but my parents would buy me a knew pair of shoes, and I would try them on inside the house, and then I would run around the house as fast as I could like a maniac! And my parents without fail would tell me how much faster I was with these shoes, and I believed it! Until one day at school some kid told me I was an idiot, and shoes don’t make you faster.
So here is my theory. What if you had a kid, and every time he got a new pair of shoes it was reinforced that he was faster with this new pair of shoes than his last. And somehow, he managed to get through gradeschool, highschool and college without anyone ever telling him different, and he makes it onto the track team. Would he be faster? Would getting a new pair of shoes make him faster still? Would telling him otherwise slow him down?
