When you are tied by a rope, do you struggle or give up? Will you be bound by outdated concepts or will you dare to innovate? All these questions require careful consideration before you can answer them.
In fact, sometimes I am bound by a rope, but I don’t even know it.
Scientists once conducted an experiment: they let monkeys in the zoo stay in a room with a bunch of bananas hung on the door. But there is a water boiling device above. When these monkeys see bananas, they rush to get them regardless. Unexpectedly, as soon as I got the banana, I was scalded by the boiling water device above and suffered injuries all over my body. The other monkeys learned this lesson and refused to eat bananas for several days.
The scientists changed another group of monkeys, leaving an old monkey inside. When the old monkey saw the new monkey going to get bananas, he quickly showed it the scars on his body. And told it about his own experience, and even the monkeys who were not burned also echoed.
So the scientists canceled the water boiling device.
However, those monkeys have been shackled by old and outdated ideas and can no longer break free. Bananas are now within reach, but no monkey dares to try to get them anymore.
Those old and outdated ideas are a rope that binds our thoughts. What it binds is not the body, but the spirit. This kind of bondage is more terrible than the physical one. In real life, there are people who break free from the shackles of the rope and dare to innovate.
The world-famous Coca-Cola was produced due to the negligence of a small store clerk.
There was a pharmacist in the United States named John Benbert who developed a syrup to treat headaches. After the formula was developed, he asked the clerk to add water to prepare it. One day, the clerk accidentally mistook soda water for plain water. Now, the syrup is bubbling. The clerk was so scared that he drank it. He thought it tasted good and asked the pharmacist. After many experiments, the pharmacist finally formulated a good drink and sold the patent to a beverage merchant. In this way, the world-famous Coca-Cola was born.
As long as we dare to innovate, we can break free from the shackles of old ideas and make new discoveries and achievements.