Beliefs aren’t facts. They aren’t “the truth”. Whenever you have a belief that is holding you back, stop and ask yourself, “is this true?” After some reflection, oftentimes you’ll see that it’s not. We only “believe” something because we don’t “know” it for a fact. How everyone develops beliefs is kind of different. These events have no objective meaning. We assign meaning to events so that we may learn about it and so that we can predict certain outcomes in case our behavior produces the same event again.
“The Little Prince” – a tale many of you read as a child – is one of the best books to learn about life, and more importantly, never losing your sense of child-like curiosity and imagination. Today, too much is made of living a pattern that is “tried & tested” to get you the picket fence, country club membership, leased Mercedes, and a comfortable retirement. The problem is that this “life” pounds the curiosity and imagination out of people. So here are three lessons I learned from “The Little Prince.”
