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Article #30: The Elephant Method - Have You Heard Of It?

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There's something new you'd like to try. life of [the spirit/sales/relating to
But you're scared to do it because you others] is no different. The
might make a fool of yourself, or heaven transformation facing the untrained is
forbid, people will belittle you and neither smaller than the elephant's nor
you'll know you should never have tried less demanding. Without visible evidence
it in the first place. And you don't have that success is possible, without a
a 5-hour block of quiet time to study it. continuous transfusion of courage,
So on the back burner it goes. discouragement is bound to set in..."
But somewhere inside, you DO want to try -Huston Smith, Buddhism
it even though it makes you a little Isn't that why Jesus told his disciples
nervous. Time for the elephant method. to go tell the story, and to Go 2 by two
Have you heard of it? to do it?
"When a wild elephant is to be tamed and Is anyone still doing that in network
trained, the best way to begin is by marketing today?
yoking it to one that has already been Tell your experience.
through the process. By contact, the wild P.S. We have run cadaver calling sessions
one comes to see that the condition it is in teams for years. In last week's New
being led toward is not wholly School class, a whole group did it in
incompatible with being an elephant - pairs. Teaming up is the only reason most
that what is expected of it does not of them did it at all. One gal couldn't
contradict its nature categorially, but eat or sleep all week in anticipation of
heralds a condition that, though this dreaded activity. We paired her with
startlingly different, is viable. someone who went first, and our gal
The author then adds the best known way listened to 5-7 calls first. Then she got
to survive this process of evolving: HER nerve up, did it many times, and now
"The constant, immediate, and contagious she's offering to help others in the
example of its yoke fellow can teach it class make calls in case they're as
as nothing else can. Training for the scared as she was before...






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