How to do the impossible

Have you ever heard of Sir Roger Bannister? If you haven't, he is the man who achieved the impossible. Before May 6 1954, no one thought running a mile in 4 minutes was possible. Scientists even said you would die from the effort of trying. However, on that day, Sir Roger Bannister managed to run a mile in 3 min 59 seconds. This was shocking but what happened next was even more mind-blowing. Within a week someone else had beaten Bannister’s timing

and then again someone beat the timing and then again and again. Now the world record is 3 min 43 seconds.

What happened? How did something even scientists thought to be impossible become something many people did over and over again? What made Bannister special? He thought it was possible, even when everyone was saying it wasn’t. This is what made him successful. Everyone who beat the timing since he beat it knew it was possible. That is what happened.

Whenever you're faced with a task that seems impossible, it only seems that way to you. Changing your mindset on whether a task is possible or not makes all the difference on whether you are successful or not. This effect is called the Bannister effect, named after Sir Roger Bannister. So my advice to you today is to always think that nothing is impossible, and you’ll succeed in everything you attempt.