In our lives, we often inadvertently develop many habits. Some of these habits are referred to as good habits, while others are called bad habits. Today, the coach from Beijing Outward Bound Company will talk to everyone about how habits become second nature. In Beijing's outward bound training courses, there is a course called "Habit Cultivation," which deeply analyzes how habits are formed, and which habits are beneficial to us and which ones hinder our success. The course also tells us how to correctly cultivate good habits and how to properly and thoroughly correct bad habits.
Habits are very important for us. At first, they are habits, but gradually they become natural. When habits become natural, good habits continue, and bad habits become difficult to change. In the outward bound training course, the coach once told everyone such a story.
In India, a thin rope or a small iron chain can confine an elephant, even tying it to a pillar or a tree. On the streets of India, people used to often see someone leading an elephant with a thin rope, and the elephant would be very obedient. This is something we find very incomprehensible - why can the elephant be confined by such a thin rope?
Yes, why is the elephant confined by this small rope? Isn't this huge creature able to easily break free by just shaking its head? Originally, when the elephant was small, Indians would use such a thin rope to tie it up. Since the elephant was still small at that time, it could not break free. Gradually, it stopped trying to break free. After a long time, when the elephant grew larger, it no longer tried to break free and was led around by people. In the zoo, the animal trainers also have a similar practice. When tigers were small, the trainers in the zoo fed them vegetables. Gradually, as the tigers grew up, they continued eating vegetables. In their consciousness, they were vegetable-eating animals. For many years, the animal trainers in the zoo and the tigers coexisted peacefully, without any incidents of tigers attacking the trainers. However, one day, the trainer accidentally cut his hand, and the blood was licked by the tiger. After tasting the blood, the tiger immediately became ferocious and ate the trainer.
The story of the animal trainer and the tiger tells us that sometimes, habits becoming second nature may not necessarily be a good thing. The animal trainer died because of his own habit.
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