From birth a baby elephant is tied with a rope to a wooden post planted in the ground leaving it confined to very small space. Soon the elephant learns that he cannot break the rope. This space defined by the rope becomes the elephant’s comfort zone.
As the elephant grows up it could easily break the rope, but it does not even try because it was conditioned as a baby that it could not break free. As a result, the large elephant remains restricted and confined in a small space.
This metaphor can be used to describe what happens human beings as we become trapped in a comfort zone. The elephant can easily break the rope and we can easily leave our comfort zone. Just as the elephants space determines what it can do, our comfort zone determines what we are capable of achieving.
In order to expand our potential and succeed in life we must expand our comfort zone into unfamiliar territory.
You will never realise what you are truly capable of achieving if you remain in your comfort zone.
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