The Elephant Method - Have You Heard Of It?

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