Why do we limit ourselves?

Day 72

Today while driving to work I heard an interesting story by Joel Osteen from the Joel Osteen ministries. The story talks about a man noticing a fisherman while fishing is throwing away the big fishes back into the ocean and just keeping the small fishes to him. Curious at this action the man asked the fisherman about the reason about his actions. The fisherman responded he has a small frying pan at home and the big fishes would not fit in his pan. Try intercepting this story to our daily lives and do we restrict ourselves in our pre-determined conceptions?

So here is my question: Why do we limit ourselves?

 Do you think our preconception restrict us for achieving the full potential that can be 

accomplished? Does our subconscious mind create boundaries within ourselves? Does the concept of thinking outside the box mean getting out of predetermined conceptions about a topic or subject? The development of many inventions is reasons because inventors broke their predetermined conceptions about the subject and thought outside the box.

How do we train our mind to avoid any preexisting determination about a subject or topic? How can we avoid ourselves from being the reason of our limitations in life? Let us change from the fisherman who restricted himself to small fishes and open the opportunity to have the ability to catch all the potential fishes. What are some of the causes that create the predetermined conceptions about the topic?

“Limitations are caused by nobody but by yourself”

~Lenji Jacob

Reference

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