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Homer Simpson has a saying: 'If a thing's hard to do then it probably isn't worth doing.'
If you don't know who Homer is, then all I can say is that whatever he says, you should do the complete opposite.
Yet, those silly words of his are so often the real meaning behind our actions. We try, fail and give up.
Why have we grown up to be that way? Kids don't have that defeatist attitude. Kids fail to swim for months before they manage to stay afloat. Kids often even hurt themselves when they fail to ride their bike the first or second or third time. But they don't say, 'It's too hard so I'll give up.'
Kids WANT to succeed and they know deep down that they WILL if they keep on trying to do the hard things long enough.
How many of us adults could sit a maths exam? It would be MUCH too hard, right?
But thousands of kids do it all the time. And most of them succeed!
There are all kinds of psycho-babble reasons why we learn to expect failure as we grow up, but none of them really count for anything.
I believe 110% that we can unlearn that stupid self- defeating belief. All it takes is a little bravery.
Have a go.
It doesn't matter if you fall off your bike or sink to the bottom of the pool. Look around you - other people are succeeding, so you know it CAN be done.
All you have to do is keep on trying and pretty soon it won't be hard anymore. And it WILL be worth doing.
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