The Elephant and the Rope
Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero
Eddie Pinero
4.9 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2020
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
There's a parable about an elephant in a circus, being held in place by a rope tied around its leg.
A man walking by takes notice and begins to wonder how these enormous, powerful creatures are so easily constrained. After all, couldn't they break free of the rope by simply pulling on it?
He asks an employee of the circus and is told that the elephants have been tied the very same way since they were babies.
When they were young, they didn't have the strength to break free. As they got older, they accepted this reality and never realized they had become strong enough to snap the rope and change their situation.
This episode is about examining the metaphorical ropes in our lives and how to re-draw those lines in the sand.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Your World Within Daily. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Eddie Pinero, and in this episode, |
| 0:06.6 | we're going to talk about a little parable about an elephant and a robe, |
| 0:10.7 | and paint life's walking through a circus. |
| 0:32.6 | And what he's noticing is he looks around. |
| 0:35.1 | He sees these massive elephants, right? |
| 0:56.8 | I'm sure everyone knows how big and strong an elephant is. They have a rope around one of their legs connected to something, and that's what's holding them in place. And he's looking at them thinking, how are these enormous creatures being held in place by these little ropes, right? They could easily, you know, |
| 1:01.2 | have enough strength to just break free and run around. Yet they're not. They're all staying right where they are. And so as he keeps walking, he finds someone and he asks them, you know, |
| 1:07.4 | how is it these elephants are constrained like that? And the person explains, well, when |
| 1:13.7 | they're little, we do the same thing. We take a rope. We tie it to one of their legs, connect it to |
| 1:18.2 | something. And at that point, they are too small. They can't go anywhere. And every day, you know, |
| 1:26.5 | we do the same thing. |
| 1:28.2 | And as they get older, they don't realize that they're big enough or strong enough to break free. |
| 1:34.7 | Like, they maintain the idea that they're shackled by that rope or tied by that rope, that they're bound to the same place. It's mental. And in fact, |
| 1:48.5 | most limitations are mental. These elephants don't even realize their constraints are self-imposed. |
| 1:57.2 | And if you take a step back, if you look at your own world, I think what you'd find is there |
| 2:06.0 | are more of these ropes than we'd like to admit. |
| 2:13.5 | And changing that is one awareness and two, a willingness. |
| 2:17.1 | Like what types of parameters have you made for yourself? |
| 2:20.0 | Are you living in just because that's what you've always done? |
| 2:24.2 | Right. |
| 2:24.5 | What is your metaphorical rope? |
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