Elephant Thinking

My grandmother had a green parrot.
This parrot used to speak like humans whatever was taught to him.
My grandmother had taught him to speak words like vithal,vithal.
Humans have this unique mechanism of sound box
and vocal chords which allows them to speak.Every time a person speaks, air enters and makes the vocal
chords to vibrate which produces a sound and this gives the ability to speak.
Now if someone would have told this parrot "Humans can speak because they have this inbuilt mechanism,
and there is no such mechanism in parrots and hence the parrot cannot speak", the parrot would have not been
able to speak.
The very thought to immitate human voice was the motivating force for the parrot.
Simmilarly an elephant when it is young is tied to a tree with a very strong chain.
The elephant tries lot to break the chain but is not successful and finally gives up.
When the elephant grows old and is tied to the tree with a chain, the elephant does not attempt to break
the chain since it knows that when it was small, it was not able to break the chain.But the elephant does not realize
that the chain which seemes to be really strong when it was young is not as much strong now when it has grown old
and can be easily broken. This is known as elephant thinking.The elephant is constrained by preconcived notions that
it had developed when it was young.
Conditions do differ with space and time.System undergoes changes with space and time.