Personal Development With Dumbo

I haven’t yet met a single person who doesn’t love the Dumbo cartoon. I guess I saw it at least 50 times in the last 3 months, but somehow I find myself liking it every time I watch it. I confess I didn’t know that cartoon until I bought it for Bianca, my 3 year old daughter and she is the one responsible for making me watch it for so many times even when I’m not quite in the mood.

In today’s post I’ll share my discoveries about how Dumbo, the tiny little elephant with huge ears can help you discover your greatest power, improve your self-respect and become the person of your dreams. If you smiled while reading this, it’s ok, it means we’re actually getting there. Personal development is not always a serious, rigid and rigorous process. It really can be a joyful and enjoyable adventure. In fact, if doing something is not at least a little bit of fun, I usually don’t do it.

The Dumbo Story

Dumbo is a little and cute elephant born in a circus somewhere in Southern Florida. It’s in every aspect identical with all other elephants in the world, except for one fact: Dumbo has huge ears. And I mean, really really huge ears. So big that it soon begin to be mocked around by kids who constantly tease the little cub. In a matter of days it become the number one subject of the gossip in the circus.

One day, the kids who were attending the show become so violent in teasing Dumbo that its mother, in a very normal, parental attempt to protect its child, start hitting them. The circus manager put her to isolation, and from that moment Dumbo is all alone. The little elephant is forced to play in a dangerous circus act in which it has to jump in a bucket filled with water from a house on fire. One night after this show, a little mouse came to Dumbo’s place and they become friends. The little mouse talk with Dumbo trying to cheer it up and even take it to see its mother in the isolation wagon. (more…)