Story-Push Your Limits
This story was told by the man- Robert J. O’Neil, who killed Osama Bin Laden.
If you want to get in to US Navy and serve as a Navy seal, you need to pass the test of tying series of knots with 2 ropes under the water in stipulated time. Every time as per instructors command you need to go down under and tie that particular knot, come up, just to take that one breath and again go down to untie the earlier one and tie different knot. You get only 5 chances to do it. If you fail, you lose the chance to get in US Navy forever.
Robert’s friend John, whose lifelong dream was to get in to Navy was on his last chance to tie the knot in time and come up, he was under lot of pressure. John went down to complete his knot in time but drowned, the moment instructor understood that John drowned, he dived and got John out of water and tried to resuscitate John yelling every time, John come back to light. After lots of trying once John spat out all the water out of his lungs finally started breathing again and his first words were “Did I Pass the test?”
The instructor thought for a while and replied, “John though you did not tie all the knots as per the rule, you ultimately passed on the principle. Tying the knots is an exercise with which we check how far you are willing to push yourself. You just killed yourself doing that! Welcome to Navy son!”
Learning from the story
1. We need to have that burning desire to achieve what we want, that will power to achieve itself will help us to push our limits and achieve things.
2. Rules are made so that principles get followed. Rules change but principles don’t. If at all you come to a situation where you face the dilemma of following the rule or principle behind it, choose the principle.
3. Results are directly proportional to how far we want to go and test our limits.
Questions we ask ourselves
What is my dream? Are we testing our limits? Are we pushing ourselves enough? How can we take that massive action to achieve our dreams?
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