The Four-Minute Mile

Note: The passage below is extracted from a book.

In the 1950s, Roger Bannister became the first man to run the four-minute mile. He managed to break a record that had been the pinnacle of man’s running ambitions since the days of the gladiators. In the year following this great feat, more than 30 men managed to replicate his achievement. After two thousand years of striving, suddenly not one man, but several, managed to run the distance in less than four minutes.

What changed? Did a new super breed of runners suddenly appear on the planet? Was a great new training technique discovered? Neither of these things happened – the only change was that people went from believing that the record could not be broken, to believing that it could. BELIEF IS EVERYTHING. People could imagine themselves doing the same thing – they could see victory in their mind’s eye.

Our life is the creation of our mind – by a very famous person.