Never rindas you / Guillem Recolons

Churchill and the Elephant rope: Never give up #Storytelling

One of the many events that make up the legacy and personal branding Winston Churchill Its the "Nunca te rindas”.

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To be precise, the words of the great British Prime Minister were:


(Nunca te rindas, nunca, nunca, nunca, en nada, grande o pequeño, largo o corto, nunca cedas ante tus convicciones de honor y sentido común. Nunca te rindas ante la fuerza, nunca sucumbas ante el poder aparentemente abrumador del enemigo”)

Context is everything

The context of the words is important. Many thought that spoke after winning the allied side World War 2. It is not like this, He uttered every day from radio waves to encourage citizens to resist while German bombs smashed the city of London. Awesome, ¿no?

Short story: Elephant rope

Today, following the thread of the short story Don't judge before knowing the context and the personal story, I published a few days ago, I bring you another story, Unfortunately anonymous, which draws very well the idea that often live in a cage is not possible to leave.

Elephant rope / storytelling

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Eduardo saw pass a group of circus elephants. Something caught her eye: these huge creatures were linked to each other through a ridiculous rope tied to his foreleg. unchained, without cages. It was obvious that the elephants could break their bonds at any time. Y, for some reason, they did.

He saw the tamer and asked why these animals just stood there and did not try to escape.

Well, said domador, when they are very young and much smaller we use the same size rope to tie them and, at that age, It is sufficient to hold. As they grow, They are conditioned to believe they can not be separated. They believe the rope can still hold them, so they never try to break free.

Eduardo could not believe it. Elephants could be released at any time from bondage, but as they believed that they could not, They were trapped.

Do not do like them. Nunca te rindas

Like elephants, How many times have you gone through life clinging to the belief that you can not do something, simply because you've failed before?

Failure is part of learning; You must never give up the fight. Watch your personal brand. As Winston Churchill repeated day after day, never give up.

Elephant in a bridge illustration by Orla on

About me Guillem Recolons


Partner at Integra Personal Branding and Soymimarca, I also collaborate with Ponte en Valor, Brandergizers,, MoreThanLaw, Noema Consulting, AdQualis and QUIFER Consultants.

As lecturer, participated in the Graduate Social Media of UPF and UVic, in various programs in ISDI, speaker at the IESE EMBA, among other. Advertising man, Master en Marketing. Grade student of Humanities.


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