The Four Minute Mile

"Never doubt that you can never do it."

For thousands of years, people believed that it was impossible for a man to run a mile in less than four minutes. Many made this generalization and formed this belief because anybody who attempted had failed.

Doctors reinforced this belief by showing evidence from their study of the human body that it was physically impossible to achieve this feat. then in 1954, a man called Roger Bannister refused to believe this. He formed a new belief that it was possible.

After lots of training mentally and physically, he accomplished this supposedly impossible feat. That, however, is not the amazing thing.

What's interesting is that until Roger Bannister accomplished this feat, nobody, for thousand of years, could do it. Yet, within one year of Bannister's breaking the record, 37 other runners also did it and in the following year, another 300 did the same.

Why? Because Bannister's achievement had destroyed people's limiting beliefs that it was impossible.

Song Suggestion: What Faith Can Do - Kutless