Robin Sharma uses horses trained by electric fences to explain how people build invisible psychological boundaries from early discouragement or negative words. Even when the fence is gone, the conditioning keeps you from crossing it. He asks what invisible fences are limiting you.
Well, welcome this session of my V log called Invisible Fences. I'm out here in the English countryside.
And, you know, in the Greatness Guide, I wrote about invisible fences. But I've got a great example for you. And here are a couple of beautiful, beautiful horses. You can see them grazing and minding their own business.
This is a really beautiful, beautiful animal here. Hi, guys.
And here's the point I want to make in this session of the V log. Right here, you can see this invisible fence. Well, it's visible, actually, but there's actually a small electrical current pulsing through this fence. Here's the thing. The horses used to come up here when they first moved in here. The horses would originally come up to this wire fence. They feel the electrical pulse, and because the pulse sort of shocked them a.
Little bit, they eventually understood there was a boundary. And if they came up to this boundary, they would get a little shock. Well, what happened? Over time, they became programmed, they became conditioned. And now I talked to someone. What they said was they no longer come anywhere near this fence. As a matter of fact, if I.
Took away this electrical fence, the horses.
Would still not come anywhere near the.
Boundary that was conditioned and programmed into them. Here's the simple point in this V log.
How many people in this world, how many of us, as a result of us daring or trying to reinvent or.
Innovate and being shut down or discouraged? Now it's almost like an invisible fence. We don't go near it.
How many of us, because of negative words as we were growing up or.
The negative words around us, have put dust over our dreams, or how big we can play as leaders without a title?
I mean, in other words, what are.
The invisible fences that have been set up for you at work.
As a.
Leader and as a human being that.
Are limiting you from how big you can play? And maybe there really aren't any fences.
There, but because of your programming, in.
Your current place of work and in.
Your personal life, you still think.
Fences are there and you can't even see.
Them, but maybe they're holding you back.
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