You. Hi, everyone. I want to start tonight by telling you an inspirational story, the parable of the elephant rope. The elephant was conditioned to believe he could never break away. He believed the rope could still hold him, so he never tried to break free. You it the elephant rope is a short and motivational story about a young man who observes elephants at a circus and is amazed at how they are held in place by a simple rope tied to a stake in the ground