A Trapped Mind

Several months after writing the "I Cannot Teach You" article I received a letter from a relative of JD. JD's father had read the article and explained to me that "Many are simply not capable of doing certain things and we need to recognize that." and that "You can't make somebody into something they don't want to be or haven't got the capacity to accomplish.".

First let me explain my struggles about these two quotes with you. JD's father is somebody I have known my entire life, has been a mentor to me, and someone I have held very dear in my heart since the day I was born. I have always taken advice from him, and he has guided me to much of my successes and picked me up through many of my failures. So with all of that in mind I immediatly converted my thinking to his and agreed with these statements. After thinking about them and rolling them around in my head for a while, I mentally came to, slapped myself across the face and said "NO!".

When we are talking about mental changes and the capacity to change your mind, there are no limits! EVERYONE posseses the ability to change! Somewhere along the way JD's father had lost the very basic principal given to us as kids and that is that you can be anything you want to be, you can accomplish anything as long as you put your mind to it. If someone has been led to beleive that they do not have the capacity or ability to do something their entire life, it may be a bit hard to change this person's mindset, but in actuality the capacity and ability is still there with some very large walls trapping it inside like a prison.

I am working on my methods, but I would like for any of you reading this to post a comment on here answering the following question.

How do you break down these prison walls in order to let ideas and the potential to do ANYTHING back out into the world?