Fear | Motivation | Success

THE LOCUS CLASSICUS OF MOTIVATION
To me the greatest story on motivation, which we’ve shared in the past with our Parables, Etc. readers still remains the following: It’s about the young man who took a shortcut home through the cemetery late one dark and moonless night. As he crept through the graveyard, which he thought he was familiar with, he fell into a deep open grave and couldn’t get up and out over the slippery sides. He was too far away from anyone to hear him so he finally realized he might just as well settle down and go to sleep until morning when help would come. After a short while another fellow took the same shortcut through the cemetery and fell into the same open grave. As the second man was thrashing about in the dark trying to climb out, the first man was awakened and said from the corner, “You can’t get out of here!” But — HE DID!