Throwback: Sticks are Stronger Than Elephants (2019)

There was once an elephant tied to a stick. A rope hung around one of its ankles. Instead of running away, the elephant spun in circles. It went around the stick again and again until it got tired and stopped. The elephant didn’t know that it was stronger than the stick. It didn’t know that it could break away. Instead of fighting, the elephant accepted its fate without question. It started going around the stick again, allowing the rope to burn into its skin. The elephant didn’t know that it could snap the stick in half with its feet.
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The elephant was blind to its own power. It believed that the stick was unbreakable, that the rope was invulnerable. The elephant is bigger than the stick, the elephant is stronger than the rope. Why does the elephant allow itself to be stuck?

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