POWER OF BELIEF
64 years ago, on May 6th 1954, something incredible happened. Roger Bannister, a 25-year-old British medical student, became the first person to run a mile in less than four minutes. Some very clever people at the time said that to do so would cause a human being to have a heart attack. Within one year, 37 runners broke the belief barrier to run a sub-4-minute mile. The year after that, 300 other runners did the same thing. In this article, Eagle Training talk about the power of belief, referring to the 4-minute mile as an example of how self-belief can be both empowering and limiting. Once one person proved it was possible, others believed they could do it too, and did. The point is that the beliefs we hold shape our lives because they act as switches that can be turned on or turned off. Most peoples’ beliefs about the possibility of doing a sub-four-minute mile were turned off. Not Roger Bannister. Oh no; his switch was very definitely turned on. Our beliefs fall into one of two...