The story goes that two boys were skating on a frozen lake. The ice cracked and one of them fell into the lake and was trapped beneath the ice.
The other boy took off one of his skates and started hitting the ice to break it, but the skate broke. Still, he didn’t give up on his effort to rescue his friend from under the ice.
He began pounding the ice with his fists until he managed to break through and save his friend from certain death.
When the authorities, emergency teams and firefighters arrived, they looked at the scene in amazement and asked the boy how, small as he was, he had managed to break the ice with his bare hands. They got no answer.
Days later, an old man explained how the boy had pulled off such a feat.
According to the old man, he managed to break the ice and rescue his friend because there was nobody there to tell him he wouldn’t be able to do it.
That old man was Albert Einstein.
Never let anyone tell you that you won’t achieve something just because they weren’t able to. Everything your mind can conceive is achievable. If you have a dream, fight to reach it, visualize it and put your whole heart into the attempt. If you fail, try again: the greatest stories are full of small failures. But great people never stopped in the face of obstacles.
We only live once, so you only get one chance to achieve the successes you set out to reach. A good example of this is the story of how Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, got started, and I’d also recommend reading The mindset of an entrepreneur, by Donald Trump.
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