It is said that there was a box, where the box turned out to contain a grasshopper. It turned out that the grasshopper had been in the box for a long time.
One day the grasshopper managed to come out. Because it has come out of the box that has confined it for so long. The grasshopper felt full of happiness, finally what he had been waiting for had come true.
The happiness that the grasshopper has is expressed through the jumps it makes here and there. Until one day he met another herd of grasshoppers. Where the grasshopper he encountered was apparently able to make much higher and longer jumps.
The grasshopper that was previously in the box wondered what the secret was to the high and long jumps of the other grasshoppers. Full of curiosity and courage, finally the grasshopper that was in the box asked the other flock.
"What makes you able to jump higher and farther than me, even though we are still the same age and body size, what's the secret?" asked the grasshopper curiously. With these words the other grasshoppers were amazed and began to answer them.
"Where have you been all this time, it's only natural that grasshoppers in the wild can do what I do," answered the grasshopper with a long jump. Instantly this answer made the grasshopper who was free from the box start to wake up.
He felt like he had given up on the situation for too long, wasting time, lacked confidence and was full of fear to try.
Did you know that we often experience the condition of grasshoppers in boxes? Where we often experience failure, words, ridicule, lack of support from others and many more. We often limit ourselves and don't dare to try because there is no support from outside.
We are too fixated on what other people say and start changing our mindset as if anything we haven't tried will definitely get bad results. So when someone else is around we can start to wonder what their secret is.
In fact, courage, never giving up, patience and enthusiasm under any circumstances are some of the factors that can get us closer to the gates of success, you know. Let's change our mindset to be braver in taking the first step closer to success.
So don't be afraid to take risks. Sometimes if we don't try, we don't know the results. As written by Nicholas Marpaung in the book "Kancil Jumps Jumps Higher". This book explains that we must have the courage to "jump in" and not be picky in our work in order to achieve the expected success.