Believe It! A lot of people will tell you that a combination of knowledge and skill is the key to human achievement.
Even with generous amounts of knowledge and skill, human achievement is still impossible without one other ingredient BELIEF. Without BELIEF nothing will happen.
Long before Columbus discovered America, scientists had proven the world was round, and we now know that more than a few people probably circumnavigated the earth before Columbus but without knowing they had done so. Until the time of Columbus; however, nearly all well informed people believed that the earth was flat, and because of that widespread belief, it might as well have been flat for all those centuries. Then Columbus made his historic voyage, and from that time on, the impossible gave way to the commonplace.
Years ago, Glenn Cunningham had come closer to running a four-minute mile than anyone else. But Glenn Cunningham believed that a four-minute mile was impossible. Coaches, doctors, anthropologists and other athletes concurred until Dr. Roger Bannister disproved them all. Not too long after his achievement, it became commonplace for several people to run the mile in less than four minutes in a single race and lose.
If all things are possible to one who believes, isn’t it equally true that nothing is possible to he who doesn’t believe? Although non-believers achieve things now and then, if they persist in their belief that something can’t be done their subconscious minds will make them right.
