Wednesday, 17 June 2009

Have you joined the flea circus?

The flea is an amazing thing. It's tiny; barely visible to the naked eye and yet it can jump 20 - 30 ft straight up in the air off the floor. So if you want a flea circus how do you stop them getting away? It's simple you get your fleas together and put them in a jar. Then you put a piece of cardboard on top of that jar. The flea will jump with 20-30 ft worth of force and SMACK! straight into the card and he repeats this again and again. You leave him in the jar for a week or so and he makes an association; he links jumping high with pain. So when you let your flea out of the jar he'll only ever jump as high as the card was.

Do you remember when you were young? You wanted to be an astronaut then a policeman then a doctor then a vet. You wanted to be and do everything and it all seemed possible. You dreamt and those dreams were never too big. But somewhere along the line somebody put a piece of cardboard over your head. Somebody told you it could never happen, you weren't clever enough, you weren't strong enough. 

Why can't we dream like that again? We know it's possible because we've done it before. The flea can still jump that incredible height but he chooses not to because somebody once stopped him. Jump that incredible height! Dream that impossible dream! Then live it.